mulix wrote: > whoops, apologies, i misparsed "Basic" as "basic". > why on earth would someone want a Basic compiler, anyway?
For the same reason one would want a PL/I or COBOL or ALGOL or APL, etc compiler. They have lots of old applications on servers that are dying of old age and can't be replaced because the company went out of business. They could swing the money to port the aplication to run under Linux, but not to rewrite it from scratch. In the70's HP sold computers that ran "timesharing basic", and many people wrote applications for them. Over the years sucessive companys (any ever heard of Basic Four?) sold minicomputers bundled with "enhanced basic". Those companies went out of business and were replaced with companies that sold newer machines with compatible compilers. This has gone through several iterations, and people who are stuck with these things don't want to finance another company. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of London, 7 hours ahead of New York. Tel: 972-(0)3-754-1158 Fax 972-(0)3-754-1236 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
