Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:55:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [maybe spam] Re: A modern programming language for FreeBSD: Swift Message-ID: <202506162355.55GNtQDW021064@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <71d166d8-0a5b-4cb4-87c8-ee292b50e81b@freebsd.org>
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> 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 -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.orghelp
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