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Free Hendey Lathe
I have some small programs that I wrote in high school on an old TRS-80
model II that will still run, and they are written in BASIC! High level languages are the ones that give the most problems, stay with the lower level and they will run forever! BTW, I graduated in 1983! -- Steve Hall Commander - Lt. Col. Wm. M. Luffman Camp #938 SCV - Chatsworth, GA Moderator - Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans E-mail groups "Gary Coffman" wrote in message ... On 25 May 2003 18:02:02 -0700, (Lennie the Lurker) wrote: The HSS tool I grind for my new Speedway will work just as well in my 1920's Hjorth, my 1900 Blount, or my 1880's Barnes. Twenty year old software will only run in twenty year old computers, if you can find one that still works. Software I wrote 20 years ago still runs today on the latest computers. It's called high level language programming. Gary |
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Free Hendey Lathe
Steve Hall wrote:
I have some small programs that I wrote in high school on an old TRS-80 model II that will still run, and they are written in BASIC! High level languages are the ones that give the most problems, stay with the lower level and they will run forever! BASIC *is* a high level language! High level means (roughly) 'far removed from the underlying architecture'. Many 'serious' languages, like C, tend to reveal a bit more of the underlying magic, the idea being that programmers sometimes need to do things outside of the model of the high level language, or that it's faster to write stuff more directly for the machine. This view held widely until the past few years, at least, when practical considerations forced it out; the speed advantages are only that great in very specialist situations, while portability of code and just not having to worry about the intricacies of the architecture have given languages like Java, Perl, Python, etc. a significant boost into the market to compete with C and C++. ABS |
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