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-=> Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Dr. What <=-

 WvV> Hi Dr.,
 WvV> (Your real name is broken!)

No.  My real name is fine.  The sysop of this BBS has his echos configured
incorrectly.

 WvV> That's an opinion! ;)

 WvV> I liked Turbo C ...

Yup.  That's an opinion.  But good luck finding a good C compiler for CP/M 2.2.

Back in those days development was
1. Edit the code in your favorite editor (probably Wordstar).
2. Exit the editor and run pass 1 of your compiler.
3. If that worked, run pass 2 of the compiler.
4. If that worked, run the linker.
5. And if that worked, run your executable to see what you need to fix.
6. Goto 1.

Needless to say, Turbo Pascal was wonderful in those days.  Turbo C didn't come
out until MUCH later.

 WvV> I highly doubt Mystic has a Pascal compiler build into it. So it
 WvV> probably has support for executables. So it doesn't matter what
 WvV> language they are written in.

No, that's not correct.  I don't know if it has a compiler "built in", but I
know that you wrote your code and use some sort of "compiler" to build it. 
It's been a while.

 WvV> I have Python seen being mentioned in the Mystic area...

As have I.  So that's why I'm wondering.

 DW> And how many languages have riffed off Java?

 WvV> I think you are confused with C !

No.  C was old by then.  C++ was the rage.  Hence the move to Java.

Newer languages borrow good thing from the current languages and try to leave
the bad things behind.


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