OT: Language for the ages

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/14/2005 at 5:29 PM Paul Koning wrote:

>C is the obvious choice.  In either case, you have to be careful that
>you don't wreck the portability by using non-portable I/O.

Is it?  Given that we don't have 20-20 prescience, how about 20-20
hindsight?  Could you implement C on any computer with sufficient memory?  

How about an IBM 1401, 1620 or 7080?  What would you do with all of those
nice operators such as <<, >>, &, |, and ^, given that these were decimal
machines?  OTOH, FORTRAN's been implemented on all of these.

Cheers,
Chuck