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To: Chung Yang who wrote (8317)	3/13/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 64865

Not to beat this to death, but whether twenty years ago it was BCPL (which preceded C) isn't particularly relevant in terms of what is required to move a high level language onto a platform. The "ported" language, whether or not it's circa Fred Flinstone, is going to have to make system calls (whether or not your program does) and with NT, for example, you are not going to start with binary anything, period. Ditto for UNIX in most cases. The binaries are artifacts, end results which have no bearing on any sensible "port" of a language to target platforms. That's not a physical law of nature, but it's a practical observation of how high level languages are implemented on today's operating systems.