Please forgive me if someone has already noted this, but yesterday I came across another programming language which targets DOS and ultimately may be able to be used to compile on DOS. Despite the odd name (COWGOL) is does seem to be a totally serious, useful language. It can be found at <http://cowlark.com/cowgol/index.html> and lists the following as things in its favour:
* a properly type safe, modern language inspired by Ada * the compiler is written in itself and is fully bootstrapped * a table-driven, easy to port backend (the 80386 backend is 1.2kloc with no other compiler changes needed) * tiny: the 80386 Linux compiler binary is 70kB (including ELF overhead) The 8080 CP/M compiler 58kB (split across two executables) * fast: on my PC it'll compile itself in 80ms. * global analysis: dead code removal and static variable allocation, leading to small and efficient binaries Bruce. --
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