Re: OT: Programming Languages

On a sunny day (Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:55:18 -0700) it happened john larkin
<JL@gct.com> wrote in <dnecijt2s9um4l6a4qnq3j0ekto8fl955d@4ax.com>:

On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:42:19 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Nov 2024 18:04:21 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Cursitor
Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote in <vg3575$3bio0$1@dont-email.me>:
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You can call me old fashioned, but I still believe there's never been a
more elegant computer language than the original K&R C. You can keep the
rest; I'll stick with that.

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Agree, I use C only and asm when needed.
I started with binary interfacing hardware...
Nothing of all of that was hard.
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BASIC was fun too, but very limiting, slow interpreted language.

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PowerBasic is a fabulous compiler. We did one contest, an array math
signal processing thing. I wrote it in PB, another guy in c. Mine ran
4 times as fast.  He played with the code and compiler optimiztions
for a couple of days and got it up to about 60% as fast as my PB
version.
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I used the obvious FOR loop with subscripts to scan the array. He used
pointers.
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c is really a PDP-11 assembler. In the early days of PDP-11
programming, everybody was fascinated with using pointers to wander up
and down the world, and with pushing stuff onto the stack. It shows in
c now.

I use for example C on my PCs and the Raspberry Pis I have.
C is yery portable, libraries and open source applications everywhere.
gcc is a nice compiler that supports many architectures.
Stuff I wrote for the PC in C comp[iles and runs on the Raspberries...
This Usenet newsreader I use now I wrote in the late nineties when moving to Linux
as there was no Free Agent for Linux...
Still using it, now posting from a Pi4 8 GB.
It uses linked lists, I have a database of Usenet postings going back to these days.
 https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/index.html
There are some compatibility issues, but that is because the graphics library I use
had some changes, but can work around it.
More C code:
 https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/download.html
There is a simple 8052 assembler written in C on that webpage too.
And a z80 dissasembler .
 https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/index.html
etc etc
My website is basic html.