OpenEuphoria

Re: translator/compiler

• Posted by "Darth Maul, aka Matt" <uglyfish87 at HOTMAIL.COM> Sep 13, 2000
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:04:56 -0700, Kenneth Rhodes <hermanhesse at EXCITE.COM>
wrote:

Yeah? Well some of us aren't that blessed. Maybe someone around here doesn't
HAVE $12, or maybe someone here DOES have $12, but no way to get a new puter
that actually has a HDD big enough for it(you know how HARD it is to main-
tain a 1.58G hard drive with only 75M of space left? Don't even ask me
where those 950+ megs went...). And why do you say LINUX instead of just
plain "Linux"? Why you have to yell to get your point across? For heaven's
sake...we can hear!

>BLATANT PLUG for LINUX
>for about $12 including shipping you can obtain Linux Mandrake 7.2 from
>Linux Mall.   You will then have gcc, python, perl... and tons of other
>"stuff" as well.  Plus KDE and GNOME, etc...
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>IMHO the best plan (though I am well aware I am spitting in the wind) is
not
>for Rob to try to adopt an MS/Windows compatible compiler, but for the
>everyone to migrate to LINUX.  In this case it would be far better to move
>the mountain to Mohammed.
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>I have been MicroSoft free now for over a year.  There is really no reason
>to go back to MS -for the price of MS Windows 2000 you can get COREL Office
>2000 Deluxe and COREL'S  LINUX distribution to boot.
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>David Cuny, I think, has recommended that Euphoria support WxWindows -maybe
>the best way to end all these translator/compiler headaches is simply to
>support gcc and WxWindows.
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>I am very seriously thinking about providing the local library with one of
>the Linux Distributions and keeping it current.  The cost to anyone in town
>would be NIL.  And LINUX support groups / the LINUX Documentation Project,
>etc. abound.
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>Also, remember that eds runs twice as fast on LINUX.
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>Ken Rhodes
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>On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:09:22 -0600, cense at mail.ru wrote:
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>>  On Wed, 13 Sep 2000,  <tone.skoda at SIOL.NET> wrote:
>>  > support VC++ 5.0
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>>  MS-crap should not be supported until there are already some free
>compilers
>>  such as DJGPP being supported. You have to pay for a usefull version of
>VC++
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>>  --
>>  could it be? no. not him. not again.
>>    cense
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