Day 851

Went into town, paid £10 into the bank to cover a cheque for more shareware (I'd found a 'buy 4 get 1 free' voucher valid till September) inc. a Modula-2 compiler. Could get here Thursday, better borrow a book on Modula-2.

Experimented with the ASIC semi-BASIC compiler I got last time. It has no expression evaluator except in assignments, and even there it can only cope with 2 terms. But it does produce very small .COM files (604 bytes for a DIR listing, and you'd be hard pressed to do that in assembler) so is worth trying.

I remember saying to M that I was a sucker for languages (a fault she also admitted to) and it's true: I've got Locomotive BASIC, QBasic, TSRBasic, ASIC, Turbo Pascal, Quick C, Prospero Fortran, Zen FORTH, the A86 assembler; and even an OPL compiler for the PC. Is ten enough?!

Why is there never anything decent on telly on Monday nights? I suppose they know people stay in anyway so they don't bother.