Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:57:01PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> An academic question: If I wrote a standalone program in C strictly for
> my own use what would be its lifetime? I have heard it argued that C
> (and I assume gcc) is here forever as it is the preferred language for
> writing operating systems. I am a retired physicist and in my career I
> wrote many standalone programs for my own use in a variety of languages,
> the largest in Turbo Pascal. I could tackle Perl and tk for cbb or try
> Python or some other language but if I do anything I want the result to
> live and work happily on my Debian based computer with minimal need for
> re-writes to accomodate upgrades.
Have you looked at the fp-* and gpc packages? Or p2c?
--
Carl Fink carl@fink.to
Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
http://www.jabootu.com
Reply to: