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seven programming languages on one floppy (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 15.06.2023, 04:16

> > I'm not sure it is useless.
>
> Yes, you can write some tools, but... too hard.
> I saw family of "integer languages" and they have no big success.
> To become more successful need char (byte) and pointer (char *, int *)
> datatype, IMHO. (like in a Small C)

Pointer? You mean "address"?

No, there is rarely a consensus on what features are minimally useful: strings, modules, exceptions, objects, generics.

> 1. Tiny Basic

What about p2c's Chipmunk BASIC?

EDIT:
> 2. Watcom Team - "does not auto-reject discussion" if somebody came with new frontend.

I'm able to (also) build p2c with OpenWatcom (atop DOS host). Better than nothing.

> 2.
> First

Seen it before. Forth had a lot of good ideas.

> 3. PL/0, Oberon-0

Interesting, I'll have to look closer again, but I recall Oberon/0 being fairly incomplete (but better than PL/0).

> We can count Pascal-S (char/boolean/integer has same width), but, imho,
> this is next level language (because have records and arrays).

P4 Pascal is good, P5 is better, but it still lacks things (e.g. good string support, modules). Even the so-called "SmallAda" (Pascal subset) is probably too minimal.

These days you could call AWK a pretty small language that does its job fairly well. Or REXX.

Complete thread:

• seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 19.03.2023, 03:16
  • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 21.03.2023, 05:39
    • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 25.03.2023, 04:12
      • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 25.03.2023, 05:34
        • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 27.03.2023, 09:25
          • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 28.03.2023, 04:00
            • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 28.03.2023, 12:29
              • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 03.04.2023, 12:03
            • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 02.04.2023, 08:08
              • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 03.04.2023, 03:04
                • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 03.04.2023, 10:33
                  • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 03.04.2023, 10:55
                    • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 14.04.2023, 02:30
                      • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 15.04.2023, 23:42
                      • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 26.05.2023, 02:17
                        • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 26.05.2023, 11:07
                        • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 26.05.2023, 23:23
                          • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 31.05.2023, 17:36
                            • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 02.06.2023, 23:07
                              • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 15.06.2023, 04:16
                    • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 16.04.2023, 00:32
                      • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 16.04.2023, 01:32
                        • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 14.01.2024, 10:00
                • seven programming languages on one floppy - marcov, 04.04.2023, 10:49
            • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 10.04.2023, 06:57
        • seven programming languages on one floppy - jhall, 27.03.2023, 17:56
          • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 28.03.2023, 04:04