[Coco] OS-9 C and Pascal compiler output

jdaggett at gate.net jdaggett at gate.net
Thu Feb 22 15:21:58 EST 2007


On 22 Feb 2007 at 12:43, Ries, Rich [S&FS] wrote:

> As I recollect, I found OS-9 C _impossible_ to figure out until I
> learned C with Borland's Turbo C. Pascal was even worse! I _think_ I
> used C to write a few filters, but most of my work was done in
> BASIC-09 because it had a Debug environment built in.
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OS9 C compiler is a scaled down version of the K&R Version 1 C Compiler. If 
you learned C back in the early to mid 80's then it was not so difficult to pick up. 

I still like Fortran77. Learning Basic09 made learning Fortran 77 a breeze. They 
are quite similar to each other. 

james  




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