From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) Date: 2002-10-14T09:16:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Commodore 64 In article , JamesBritt wrote: >> >> >> What, you already had a C compiler for a Commodore 64 back then? You were >> ahead of your time, buddy. I myself journeyed through BASIC and FORTRAN >> for many years before I touched C. > >Abacus Software sold various compilers for the C=64, including C and Pascal. >This was around the late '80s, I think. > >> >> Regarding cellular automata, isn't that the foundation of Wolfram's "A New >> Kind of Science"? You were definitely ahead of your time.... Yeah, Wolfram became very interested in CAs (some would say obsessed) back in the 80's and they are the foundation for his "new kind of Science". > >I'm busy packing up my many books (in preparation for moving to north >Virginia), and just came across Wolfram's Theory and Application of Cellular >Automata, published in 1986. I guess it was around that tine I was >discovering CAs and artificial life, and just got hooked. > Actually, wasn't in in the early 70's when Conway's game of life was introduced in Scientific American. Also, I believe it was Von Neumann who invented CA's back in the 40's or 50's so they've been around for a while. Phil