On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Ralf Quint wrote:
Yup, that one. But there is no proper, easy to install version of the
ANSI style compiler and inclusion of things like the peephole optimizer.
And there is no manual to cover the ANSI version, the last printed
version only covers the 2.x K&R compiler. I have OCR'd the whole manual,
but it is a lot of work to adjust everything to ANSI syntax and
specially all the "screenshot" examples need to be redone from scratch.
And to be more useful, it needs to have a lot of the Borland style
libraries added...
I wonder if some of them could be ported from DJGPP? I know DJGPP has a
Borland-compatible conio library (unlike Watcom).
For a while I tinkered around with the Japanese Cabezon Pascal compiler:
https://wiki.bttr-software.de/Cabezon/HomePage
Didn't get very far, because I lost interest a little. Still have some
small examples on my disk only.
I already have some ideas, but time flies...
Never heard about this one, so had only a brief look after downloading.
The biggest hurdle for a start is that both the docs and the comments in
the source code are in Japanese...
あぁ、大変です！ (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
I'm going to guess it's too big for someone like me to attempt to trudge
through all the comments, and my Japanese is rather mediocre (although I
do speak the language a little bit and have done translation work,
including semi-professionally, from Japanese to English).
Does help that most computer-related terminology in Japanese is borrowed
from English (there's a joke in the movie "Perfect Blue" about this).
And I have right now the same problem as you, so much interesting
projects/ideas but so little time... ;-)
Ditto.
Maybe a bit bad wording on my part (after all, I wrote this a 06:00 in
the morning, with only one cup of coffee), what I mean is that in
general "DOS" has the problem of the lack of drivers for "modern"
hardware...
Which I think has always been true at least since the 32-bit era.
-uso.
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