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Re: Programming languages
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:40:38 GMT
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Malcolm S Powell <msp@umbraAVOIDSPAM.co.uk>
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John Barnes wrote:
> I would like the freedom offered by a development system
> which compiles directly to a native binary.
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> It would seem that you have to be familiar with unix and its derivatives
> in order to be able to accomplish this. My attempts to use LegOS
> have been total failures. I have made the suggestion to one or two
> people that a CD-R with everything preconfigured to copy to your
> hard drive and run would make it much easier to get running. None
> of my offered bribes have worked though :(
I too would have tried LegOS if installing it were not so much like the more
tedious computing chores I have to do at work everyday. Is there something
intrinstically wrong with distributing binaries that will run on the most
common platforms?
My first programs were into to an Elliot-803 computer with a delay line memory
from 5 track paper tape. This was not so bad as my first programs were only a
few yards long. The big problem was that you had to put in the Algol compiler
and its libraries first and they were on reels of 5 track paper tape 8 inches
in diameter! I never did get that chess program to work because the number of
times you got the tapes in without a tear was very small.
...but I moved on and it all got so much better because I was using a Digital
PDP-8 and the compiler and an odd little thing we did not have before called an
"operating system" were stored on little magnetic tapes and all I had to do was
to start it up by entering the first 20 or 30 instructions of the "bootstrap"
in binary on a set of switches. I got so good at this that I could get it right
first time about 6 times out of 10.
...<decades roll past>
...but I moved on and now I have a machine with a Giga byte of memory and
dozens of Giga bytes of hard disk and a processor clocked at over 1GHz and it
starts up all by itself! When I want to run a program I twitch my finger twice
after pointing at a picture of it on my desktop and I can install other
programs by doing the same thing.
Funny how when I think about installing LegOS these memories come to the
surface:-)
Malcolm S Powell
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| "Malcolm S Powell" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3A8B87F6.B5EB01...a.co.uk... (...) more (...) <snip> (...) I'd just like to say that LegOS is definitely worth the trouble if you want a serious development language which offers (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Programming languages
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| What an interesting question, and I hope it solicits a comprehensive review from someone who has the breadth to understand and use them all. I use nqc all the time because it is SO easy. - thanks Dave! But, I would like the freedom offered by a (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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