Hello Rene!

26 May 03 21:51, Rene Laederach wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> first i will say i am nearly 40 :)
 RL> Ah, and do you know COBOL, Algol, Fortran and possibly some other 
 RL> horrors never seen implemented as a programming language on AmigaOS?

i have amiga comal, but you are right most programming on amiga is done in
asm and c, just a little in c++, i do know COBOL Algol, Fortran, but only
from books about them, i have only worked by hands-on on pascal / basic /
comal 

 RL> I have the joy to work with mainframes, where software written in these 
 RL> languages is rampant. I'm happy to know COBOL and Python, apart from a 
 RL> bit Java, (A)REXX and perl. And of course shell scripting.

the fun thing is REXX its something from ibm but i have not seen it used
alot on os2, but arexx is nearly used on every amiga programs, this have me
pusled 

:)

 BP>> and comal is a language of 2 other more known ones, pascal and basic, 
 BP>> comal was born when a teacher in danmark have seen how bad some 
 BP>> studients make programs and desided to make a better language out of 
 BP>> pascal and basic, so comal was born, and studients begin to program 
 BP>> better, i just wish some at microsoft will learn comal :)
 RL> Possibly with C#, something good might come out. But then, do I have 
 RL> C# compilers on Linux, MVS and AIX? If not, the problem's solved. I 
 RL> don't have time to learn yet another API for programming.

comal is imho not just another api, basicly its build from the best world
at 8bit from pascal and at the time of basic from 8bit computers, the fun
comes when you have comal, portabality :)

comal programs writed for c64 runs in native comal 128, and amiga comal, i
know accorn bbc olso have comal, but its not build from the same source,
there fore only the basic comal kernel is working

 Regards Benny

... and it works :)

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