I think E is just great. I used E to code myself. Almost as easy as ARexx IMHO.
I jumped directly from ARexx anyway and had my first program working less
than a month after.

Too bad PortablE for OS4 isn't finished now..

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I've never learned E, I jumped directly from Amos to 64k asm and from there there was only one way - C.

But I would like to see the final version of PortablE available for all Amiga and Amiga-like systems. If it's really such an easy language, it would attract some people to create some tools for Amiga. Some of them would catch the bug and learn more to create some larger programs. And as you know we will never get enough of those.

So, keep it up! More languages available can only do good.

It would be really great if someone make an E compiler for x86 and others PPC system...

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I wasn't expecting a news item about PortablE quite yet, but if you want to find out more about PortablE, this AmigaWorld thread should help:
The PortablE compiler - AmigaE reborn!

@Keyserling
If you don't use AmigaDOS calls, and you remove the few fixed references to DOS from the C++ code created by PortablE, then you can ALREADY run some E programs on Windows! In fact, if there was someone familiar with Windows DOS calls, it should be easy to add support to PortablE for "AmigaDOS" calls on Windows.

And of course the C++ code should be compilable for OS4, etc, with the AmigaDOS calls intact. However, with the large number of C++ compilers out there, it may take some time to ensure the generated code works flawlessly on all of them. Sadly StormC v3 has turned out to be too bugged to be useful.

Note that although the supported AmigaOS calls is currently limited, most of the work required to support more OS calls (and 3rd-party libraries) can be done by ANYONE! So there is no need to wait for me to add support.

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BTW, anyone wanting to join the AmigaE mailing list can do so from here:
http://www.freelists.org/list/positron

I had been intending to start my own mailing list for PortablE, but it sounds like a good suggestion that people interested in PortablE (and so E in general) should join the AmigaE mailing list instead.

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@ChrisH

The C++ code isn't quite correct for compiling on OS4/gcc (example.cpp). It complains about the return type of ::main not being int. Further up the code, #include <pragma/exec_pragmas.h> needs to be #include <proto/exec.h> for OS4 (this should work on 3.x as well)

I'll have a go at running my own stuff through PortablE later.

Chris

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The code should still compile, even if it complains about main not returning an integer.

Thanks for the tip about the #include, since this was pure guess-work based upon what includes StormC provided & what code people had posted on-line. You can fix the #include yourself, by editing the module 'PE/target/CPP_AmigaOS3.e'

BTW, I've just noticed that New() & FastNew() don't clear their memory for C++. This is easily fixed, but I don't see a point in release another update so soon, unless I know it causes a problem for someone.

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Wow! This is some seriously good news!
Some cool apps that are tied tightly to the 68k will hopefully be 'freed' now. :) ... or then, rather when portablE gets released.

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@rdolores
No, as I still don't know if there is enough interest to justify a web site. I would suggest that anyone interested in PortablE joins the AmigaE mailing list; if the traffic for PortablE gets too high, then it might be worth thinking about a web site.

P.S. Can people please be careful not to post my email address on any public forums, as I have already had some spam, although I don't know how.

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BTW, I am more than happy to answer any questions that someone may have about PortablE, although I hope that the included documentation will be sufficient in most cases.

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A minor warning, but also good news:

The generated C++ code does not seem to work with GCC (nor StormC), however I am close to overcoming these problems, so the next release should be much more compatible. Please join the AmigaE mailing list if you wish to hear about the next release, when it is done. The next release should also have improved backwards-compatibility with AmigaE.

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@Samwel who said Quote:

I think E is just great. I used E to code myself. Almost as easy as ARexx IMHO.

When moving from ARexx (or BASIC) to AmigaE, the main difficulty is that creating new strings is not as simple as just typing: bigString = 'first string' + 'second string'. You have to do something like this:

   DEF bigString[50]:STRING
   StrCopy(bigString, 'first string')
   StrAdd(bigString, 'second string')

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Okey, one final update

A new version of PortablE has been released, which you will know how to get if you joined the AmigaE mailing list. There are two major improvements:

1. It is now compatible with GCC & StormC (and hopefully OS4 too).

2. It is much more compatible with AmigaE, thanks to additions like STRINGs, LISTs & immediate lists, and improvements to the compatibility mode, such as supporting EXCEPT, exceptioninfo & bug fixes to pointer arithmetic.

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