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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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tmoran@acm.org wrote in message ...
>>that may not offer much support for them. (Floating point? Context
switching
>>for tasks? Lots of things get to be a problem on small chips.) C,
lacking
>  I used to regularly compile and run Ada 83 programs in 16 bit DOS on
>a 286, often generating a small memory model (64K) .com file.  But I
grant
>that's gigantic compared to 512 bytes of RAM.

As I recall, that version could make useful programs that fit in 16K ROM
and 2K RAM. The only reason to prefer C is ignorance...

                Randy.