Hello Victor

On  9 Jan 2007, you wrote:

> cool, what platform are you running it on (I really miss the Amiga)

On the fabled AmigaOne. 800MHz PPC processor. Not available for sale anymore
(but new batches expected), I bought it for $1000, just the motherboard. An
expensive hobby...  ;)

> to the best of my knowledge there isn't a COBOL compiler for the Amiga.

I don't know of any either.

> Originally AmigaDOS was written in BCPL and the public interface was 
> C and most apps were written in it.

The majority, if not all, apps are in C nowadays, too. We just have a shortage
of programmers, not surprising since everybody left eons ago...

> C++ was just coming along when Ami died, but I've used the Comeau C++ 
> "compiler" waaaay back when.

The version of GCC we have can compile C++.

> At any rate, I'd learn C++ if I were you, and hopefully the course 
> will be as good as what you can learn from t
> the books at  http://rudbek.com/books.html

I'll keep struggling with C, for now, since I've bought 2 books. Then I'll give
C++ a try.

Thanks.

Bye,

Nuno

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