Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming

["Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com>]

Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote:
| <nospam@nouce.bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
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|| On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:57:07 +0200, "Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now>
|| wrote:
||
||| On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:32:51 +0000, Simon Williams wrote:
|||
|||| though if there is an HTML
|||| interpreter available for the Apple II I'd be very pleased to hear
|||| about it :)
|||
||| Take a look at Contiki, it contains an HTML interpreter.
||
|| Feh... what was emacs written in?  Teco scripts lead to Vteco were
|| handy as are DCL derived appications.
||
|| If you can do it in asm you can do it in any languge that is
|| sufficiently complete.    However I've love to see some one write
|| HTML that can set Bit 3 of the DDR on a port.
||
|| It's all noise most of this.
||
|| Allison
|
| I would love to see someone control a port at a non-standard address
| in Basic, Fortran, Cobol, C, C++, etc without using extensions beyond
| the standard language.  The truth is that your statement "If you can
| do it in asm you can do it in any language that is sufficiently
| complete." is not quite true.  Many computer languages do have
| limitations built into them. One good example is reentrant code, some
| can some can not.

Fine, and I would love to oblige you.
If you would care to give me the address of the hypothetical port, then I
would be happy to furnish you with examples in Basic (yeauch !), Fortran,
Cobol and C. Can't really clain to know C++ that well, but might be
persuaded to give it a try. Might even be persuaded to give it a go in
Forth, Assembler and Java too if you ask nicely (and pay well). Please don't
ask me to try it in HTML or XML.
Kevin.
P.S. Computer programming services at �30 per hour, plus expenses.