Hi, On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:55 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 3/21/2018 11:46 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > >>> Dos may have alot of limits but you can still get alot done with it. >>> HP could use FREEDOS development to break in their new >>> engineers. Most companies fire halft of their hires in a few months >>> if they can't produce. Dos could be used to weed them out. >> >> Not going to happen. Because a lot of programming paradigms and tools for >> today's environments are completely different that what would required for >> DOS. And yes, that includes GCC and similar abominations...
Yes, DOS works differently, but isn't that what an engineer (or similar guru) is supposed to do? Make things work, fix problems, etc.? I don't expect miracles, and I don't demand anyone else waste their time, but is it really that hard and impossible? Is it really just difficulty and lack of skill? Or are there other reasons? > Yep. DOS is simply long obsolete. So is C++11 (in lieu of '17). Should all old code be obsoleted? I somehow doubt modern web browsers would like being forced to migrate. It's always harder than it sounds. Lernigu la esperantan, la angla ekmortas! Ho, ve'! > For that matter, we are seeing signs GCC is gradually being abandoned. > Google's Android development, > for example, has shifted to using the Clang front end to LLVM. Clang and > LLVM don't support as many > targets as GCC does, and doesn't *plan* to. (GCC can compile Ada code. LLVM > isn't going near that...) Google can use whatever compiler they want, they have that luxury. That doesn't mean GCC is "dying". GCC is still widely used, and indeed GNAT still is commercially supported by AdaCore. It's things like FPC (Free Pascal) that are (mostly, AFAIK) volunteer efforts and thus unpaid. And while FPC isn't as popular as GCC, it's extremely good. Ironically, they have less devs for Windows but tons more users there, not to mention support for many other OSes and arches. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
