[Coco] obscure programming languages was Re: books

[Willard Goosey]

>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:30:28 -0500
>From: "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at gmail.com>
>
>I believe that C implementation under RSDOS was from Dugger's Systems and it
>was called "Small C"...

Humm.  Small C is the name of an old portable C subset that was ported
to several different machines.

>Color Pilot is a 'Pilot' implementation under RSDOS, haven't seen one for
>OS9 (at least on the CoCo)

RTSI.  On the other hand, I didn't know there was a rsdos version
around.

Pilot is an interesting little language, but it seems kinda limited.

>DL Logo is an excellent Logo environment for OS9, flies circles around the
>Tandy version done for RSDOS.

I somehow missed Logo completely, and I don't know a thing about it.
>
>Forth I believe was available from Microware once (80's) but the company

Never heard of a Microware Forth.  That would have been interesting.
There's a forth for OS-9 on rtsi, and D.L. Johnson (I think) had a
comercial forth interpter & compiler package for OS-9.

As long as you're being obscure, the iapl port on rtsi is a very well
done APL.  The CoCo 3's fast text-on-graphics capability makes it a
good fit for APL's unique character set.  

>There were a few implementations of Forth done for RSDOS, at least
>one I have was freely available on Compuserve.
>
Yeah, there's one in the old Princeton archive on maltedmedia.

The mythical Microware packages I'm curious about were their FORTRAN
and COBOL compilers (why cobol on a real-time OS?  Fortran I can
see...) 

>FLEX had other compilers available, I know this OS at least had the Small C
>from Dugger's mentioned above.

I'm very curious about FLEX but there apparently aren't any CoCo 3
friendly versions around.

Willard
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