[Info-vax] Viable versus ideal programming languages

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-22, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>
> When talkning about these kind of systems, you need to
> qualify "support". It is not that you are able to run
> a C-compiler on any of those "platforms". But there are
> dev tools available for Windows/Linux or such, that does
> have a C-compiler included for these platforms.
>
> It is more correct to talk about C-compilers that support
> these platforms, not the other way around.
>

That's a fair point Jan-Erik. When talking about embedded environments,
we really are indeed talking about C compilers that support the embedded
environment as a target environment, not a host environment.

Simon.

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