[Coco] shot down twice (retroarchive.org)

[Willard Goosey]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:06:25PM +1100, Mark McDougall wrote:
> On 13/12/2010 7:31 PM, Willard Goosey wrote:
> 
> >I looked at two more languages at retroarchive.org with an eye to
> >getting them running under OS-9...
> 
> Willard, next time you're itchin' to port something to the Coco, may I 
> suggest you just leave that cap on the bourbon bottle? ;)

Well, the BCPL compiler (compiles to an ICODE) would be almost useful.
It intcode interpeter will compile and run under CP/M and 68K-based
UNIX, so I suspect that it just needs a little tweaking to work around
our C compiler's bugs. (It compiled under OS-9, but didn't work right,
and I lost the version I had in a hard drive crash.)

I am strangely facinated with FOCAL for some reason. It's like BASIC
crossed with PILOT, except without useful strings.  

See, this is what happens when my wide interest in programming
languages intersects my CoCo obsession... And yes, it is pretty
similar to smacking myself with a bottle of booze! ;-)

Willard
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