On 12/1/2020 7:33 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
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).
You could even rewrite them from scratch. But it takes time, either way...
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).
I used to be able to speak and understand a little bit of Japanese, as
learned while doing various martial arts, but this is now 40 years ago.
But I never got a handle on the various ways of writing, something that
Japanese had in common with Greek and Russian... 😉
On a more serious note, I have tried to use/participate in various Open
Source projects that had their source and/or documentation in another
language than English and it never went far. Not even when it was in my
native language German rather than something more exotic (due to the
non-Latin writing), like Japanese...
Ralf
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