A compiler that is able to compile itself means that it's ready for use. Congratulations.

Hans

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It's been able to compile itself since January but I have mainly been working on improving the AmigaE backwards compatibility since then...

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great news!
so it's time to start to port old os3 stuff to modern amigas now?

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This is a great notice for the Amiga users begin to programming their own tools, programs and games for after they give us.
Congratulations!

@SpotUP who said Quote:

so it's time to start to port old os3 stuff to modern amigas now?

I hope so! The only likely issue is that it does not yet include all the modules that may be used by old AmigaE programs. But (in principle) anyone can port modules, if they have the source code available, or if there are C++ #include equivalents.

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E = Rulez * forever

Congrats!

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It's not for me as I'm not an E programmer, but it looks fab! Well done ChrisH It's this kind of computing enthusiast project that still makes the Amiga great IMO.

What's your future plans for PortablE, by the way?

Great to see this now released publicly!
You have really put a lot of work into this Chris, congratulations!

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The beginner's guide to E on your site is broken.

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...wait... what?

@Legion
How is the beginner's guide "broken"? It works fine here! And what browser are you using?

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@smithy who wrote Quote:

What's your future plans for PortablE, by the way?

My immediate plans will probably change, but currently I am aiming to get it working on Windows - so that I can then write (non-GUI) programs which automatically work on both Amiga *and* Windows.

From day one, the whole idea of PortablE has been to avoid tying myself to any particular OS, and instead be able to write programs which run on any & every computer/smartphone/PDA that I have. Still a long way to go before I complete that plan, but it's already pretty useful.

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Wau... Now I just have to learn E aswell :=)

Keep up the good work..

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Keep up the good work ! It looks interesting. I might have a look at E this summer when I have more time, it's a nice language.

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The beginner's guide to E on your site is broken.

It actually works fine in firefox, but doesn't work in IE (i know...), your BASE HREF="beginner_1.html" is incorrect. It should be BASE HREF="http://cshandley.co.uk/JasonHulance/", or omitted completely, I would guess it was incorrectly added by texi2html.

And congratulations on the release, new languages are always fun to take a look at.

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@Bragg
Thanks for identifying the problem, it is now fixed.

@Legion
Thanks for reporting the problem.

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It exports to other languages??? I predict huge executables...

... but I'll try it anyway. With some existing E code!

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@mwoof
No larger than normal C/C++ apps - which is of course larger than AmigaE ones, but AmigaE doesn't support OS4, AROS, or any of the improvements I've made...

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Bah, the first page of the Beginner's Guide still did not work in Internet Explorer, due to an oversight on my part. Anyway, it's REALLY fixed now...

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