Re: [maybe spam] Re: A modern programming language for FreeBSD: Swift

> On 6/14/25 10:06 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 01:06:40PM +0000, Jordan Gordeev wrote:
> >>   * support for dynamic linking (incl. to libc for isolating generated code from changes to the userland?kernel interface)
> > What specifically do you mean there?
> >
> > Does swift run over the C runtime, or like Go, it implements its own
> > runtime directly interacting with kernel syscalls?
> 
> I have a Basic to C converter on my BSD web page..? I haven't changed 
> it for? a couple of decade or so but it did run last I looked.. Maybe 
> we can use it to maintain FreeBSD in basic!?? Only takes a few 
> millisecs to covert a CBASIC program to C.?? Lets go for a language 
> that isn't "fashionable", but really has history!
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBASIC

As much as I like the simplistic idea of BASIC, having first learned
it in 1969, I would rather if we must retrograde lets pick something
with a "bit" more "bit handling" like PL/1?
 
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSY2V3_5.1.0/com.ibm.ent.pl1.zos.doc/lrm.pdf


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org