Re: [Freedos-user] COWGOL programming language

2021-03-17 Thread Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user
> > The Cowgol page (http://cowlark.com/cowgol/index.html) says that the > > lack of recursion is because most of the target platforms "don't really > > support stack frames". I wonder if that means there will also be a > > problem writing, say, thread-safe routines or re-entrant routines. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] COWGOL programming language

2021-03-17 Thread tom ehlert
Hallo Herr TK Chia, am Mittwoch, 17. März 2021 um 13:19 schrieben Sie: > Hello Bruce, hello Dennis, >> No recursion and no floating point will be blockers users need to keep >> in mind, but being able to build for 8bit micros like the 8080, Z-80, >> and 6502 is a definite plus.. > The Cowgol pa

Re: [Freedos-user] COWGOL programming language

2021-03-17 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 8:21 AM TK Chia wrote: > > > No recursion and no floating point will be blockers users need to keep > > in mind, but being able to build for 8bit micros like the 8080, Z-80, > > and 6502 is a definite plus.. > > The Cowgol page (http://cowlark.com/cowgol/index.html) says th

Re: [Freedos-user] COWGOL programming language

2021-03-17 Thread TK Chia
Hello Bruce, hello Dennis, No recursion and no floating point will be blockers users need to keep in mind, but being able to build for 8bit micros like the 8080, Z-80, and 6502 is a definite plus.. The Cowgol page (http://cowlark.com/cowgol/index.html) says that the lack of recursion is becaus

Re: [Freedos-user] COWGOL programming language

2021-03-13 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 2:38 AM wrote: > > Please forgive me if someone has already noted this, but yesterday I came > across another programming language which targets DOS and ultimately may be > able to be used to compile on DOS. Despite the odd name (COWGOL) is does seem > to be a totally se

[Freedos-user] COWGOL programming language

2021-03-12 Thread bruce.axtens
Please forgive me if someone has already noted this, but yesterday I came across another programming language which targets DOS and ultimately may be able to be used to compile on DOS. Despite the odd name (COWGOL) is does seem to be a totally serious, useful language. It can be found at