[HN Gopher] Commodore Languages List (2021)
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       Commodore Languages List (2021)
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2022-03-20 08:22 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | pjmlp wrote:
       | Note the selection of compilers for languages that many would say
       | only exist as interpreters, on a system using a couple of KB.
        
       | classichasclass wrote:
       | Hey, I got a credit!
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       | Diabolo is one of the more interesting BASIC compilers. It really
       | does issue exceptionally fast code compared to others if you can
       | make it work with the constrained subset it supports. It's about
       | two or three times slower than handwritten assembly code, which
       | considering it has barely token optimization passes (not really a
       | thing on home computers in the 1980s) is notable.
        
       | johnisgood wrote:
       | So all Ada had... an Ada Training Course... :(
        
       | cgh wrote:
       | I see the French Silk assembler made the list. I saw the ad for
       | this thing in the back of The Transactor, I believe, and
       | basically begged my parents to buy it for me. I was around eleven
       | or twelve years old. I taught myself 6502 assembly, sort of
       | (there was a lot of stuff I didn't get). I made a simple drawing
       | program, among other things. It was mind-expanding stuff, some of
       | the happiest memories of my childhood.
        
       | Torwald wrote:
       | COMAL is one of these little computer tech gems that just went
       | overboard with currents of tech market history.
        
         | bouvin wrote:
         | That and Simon's Basic were my earliest programming
         | experiences.
        
           | Torwald wrote:
           | I found it in the students library and I had a C64 at the
           | time and I thought "Wow, this is it! This is the official,
           | real language for the Commodore, 'cos COMmodore and COMal,
           | obvious, right?"
        
         | soegaard wrote:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMAL
        
           | andai wrote:
           | The History section is a great read!
        
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         | Cockbrand wrote:
         | Back in the late 80s, we had a bunch of C128s running COMAL in
         | the computer lab in school. I was quite proficient in BASIC
         | back then and found COMAL's structuredness somewhat narrow
         | minded and stuffy. But then I didn't know any better, and I
         | fortunately learned to appreciate better structured programming
         | languages soon.
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | COMAL was my first programming language (unless you count HP
         | 11C code), it was really great. Does anyone know where to get
         | the Windows version?
        
       | HelloNurse wrote:
       | Missing: the PET implementations of LOGO.
        
         | sixothree wrote:
         | If you have any reference, maybe fire off an email to him.
        
       | TheChaplain wrote:
       | Weird. Bluecoat tags the page as phishing site, yet there is not
       | even a script-tag...
        
       | jcadam wrote:
       | Nothing for the Commodore Amiga, eh? No AMOS or ARexx :(
        
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