[Info-vax] Viable versus ideal programming languages

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/22/22 14:42, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 

In the two examples I gave, Z80 and 6809 the C-compilers do support
the environment they run in.  And do it natively.

bill