Just wondering if there are any portable Programing languages out there? I know there are windows versions of just about all open source languages. How hard would it be to make them portable? Would love to get my hands on a portable version of mono or ruby.
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Lnaguages themselves are only descriptions, so to say, as to how to write a program for a compiler (that compiles that language) to understand that code and produce a program.
Are you possibly looking for portable compilers, or portable interpreters (did I spell that right?)?
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Correct. I am looking for compilers and interpreters, the source code for most languages are nothing more than text files. Would be nice to find a development environment as well, although I can use notepad++ or any other number of apps for syntax.
You could may be try the Eclipse IDE (http://www.eclipse.org/). Warning! It's not truly portable as far as I know (since it may cause permanent changes to the host I don't know of, especially if you add a lot of plugins). However it is quite happy with being run on a different machine every time. I don't care about possibly leaving personal information, since I only use it at home and at my university's PC labs (after checking that the software that cleans the PC the moment I log off or the PC reboots, is in working order).
I thought compilers and interpreters themselves are already portable...when extracted anyways.
I thought compilers and interpreters themselves are already portable...
The languages themselves are portable; indeed pretty much all programming languages are with the exception of Algol/W, which was tied into the ancient IBM 360 architecture, are portable. What may not be portable are the processors (compilers/libraries and interpreters) that allow them to run on a specific environment.
There are portable version of Perl and Python hidden in the forums. You may try looking for a portable ruby package.
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Try Code::Blocks, it's a C++ IDE. Quite cool and more recent than Dev C++.
yeah but I like WxDev-C++ which is an actively developed version of Dev-C++ with a form designer for the WX C++ library
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I would like to see Python portable final, with IDE Like Wingware/PyScripter or any other IDE Like DrPython