Re: What would a modern LispOS look like?

"goose" <ruse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[1] unless that language is C. Writing your spiffy tic-tac-toe-solving
library in plain std C means that it can be used on any platform that
has a conforming C compiler i.e. 99% of platforms. Those platforms that
don't have a C compiler most certainly won't have any other HLL
compiler
either and will be typically programmed in assembler or similar.

Writing that same logic into a library in most other languages limits
you to the platforms that have a compiler and/or environment for that
language.

But given that most other programming languages have at least one
implementation written in C, they're actually available on 98.999% of
the platforms too!

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