[ILUG-Social] Perl is a pool language

[John P . Looney]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:25:25PM +0200, Foley, Brian (Galway) mentioned:
> Interestingly enough, quite a few big applications for the windowing
> environment on the Acorn Archimedes were written either in BBC BASIC, or ARM
> assembler.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what did software tend to get written in on the
> Amgia/Atari?

 Mostly assembler, a good bit of C (and the older kernels were written in
BCPL ;)

 It was also the last time I enjoyed programming in assembly/hitting the
hardware. All my 3D stuff stopped working when I upgraded to an A1200, and
that upset me ;)

Kate

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