Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal,net.lang.c Subject: Re: PASCAL as a system's programming language Message-ID: <4881@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 11:21:50 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4881 Posted: Tue Jan 8 11:21:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 11:21:50 EST References: <252@harvard.ARPA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > ... Unfortunately, 'C' can be adapted only with great difficulties > to other architectures, like the Cyber 173, the DEC-20, &c. (not to be > misunderstood, 'C' compilers for these machines exists, it is just that > practically no program that Joe Random Hacker produces on a VAX will > run on them unaltered). Actually, practically no program that Joe Random Hacker produces on a VAX will run on a PDP11 unaltered... -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry