Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <FUvUa.2235$FP5.964@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>,
Mike Pender <mpender@spamsucks.com> wrote:
>Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> wrote in message
>qh8yqmhyzk.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com">news:qh8yqmhyzk.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com...
>>
>> If you really want to see a program that does this, I'd be happy to write
>> you a new one at my standard consulting rates.  It would probably take
>> about two hours, including installing Apple Pascal on a simulator.
>
>Thanks for the offer, but if I cared that much I would just download the
>Apple Pascal files from Asimov and do it myself.
>
>Its been at least 15 years since I worked with Apple Pascal too.  I expect
>that a lot of problems that seemed 'unsolvable' back in those days would be
>"no problem" at all now--whether due to updates (a.k.a. fixing bugs) in the
>software or improvements in skill level.

However, you could try it out on some old Apple Pascal implementation,
to see if there really was an "only one file open at a time" problem
or not back then.....




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