[Info-vax] Viable versus ideal programming languages

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-03-22 kl. 20:30, skrev 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
> 

Compilers running on Z80 and/or 6809 plattforms natively?
Maybe it is tecnicaly possible but I do not see the point.