From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   (This reply is not meant for bart, but rather for all interested   
   folks who should not get repelled by his FUD posts.)   
      
   On 25.10.2025 00:18, bart wrote:   
   > [...]   
   >   
   > (I remember trying to build A68G, an interpreter, on Windows, and the   
   > 'configure' step was a major obstacle. But I was willing to isolate the   
   > 12 C source files involved, then it was built in one second.   
   >   
   > I did of course try building it in Linux too, and it took about 5   
   > minutes that I recall, using a spinnning hard drive, mostly spent   
   > running through that configure script.   
      
   (I don't know what system or system configuration the poster runs.   
   I'm well aware that if you are using the Windows platform you may   
   suffer from many things; but the platform choice is your decision!   
   But maybe he's just misremembering; and nonetheless spreading FUD.)   
      
   I've a quite old (~16+ years old) Linux system that was back these   
   days when I bought it already at the _very low performance range_.   
   With this old system the ./configure needs less than 10 seconds,   
   and the build process with make about _half a minute_ for the whole   
   a68g Genie system. - The whole procedure, from software download,   
   extraction, configure/make, and start an Algol application, needs   
   one minute! (Make that two minutes if you are typing v_e_r_y slowly   
   or have a slow download link. Or just put the necessary commands in   
   a shell file; just did that and it needed (including the download)   
   less than 45 seconds, and ready to run.)   
      
   Janis   
      
   > [...]   
      
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