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Article #278Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division
From: John Hascall
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1989 22:54
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1989 22:54
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In article <1399@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>In article <4909@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
[... back and forth about expressions with N return values (N >= 1) ...]
>I am perfectly willing to write in what I call a HLL machine language.
>Given a decent macro processor, in which the syntax, including the
>macro name, is arbitrary, I would write that. This is really what
>a compiler is; a macro processor, possibly with an optimizer added.
Well, there's always BLISS! :-)
John "just causing trouble" Hascall
p.s., I do have to agree with the sentiment that computer languages (well,
actually the entire computer industry) have tended to have a rather
narrow view of the problems the rest of the world would like to solve
and the methods they would like to use.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!atanasoff!hascall From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division Message-ID: <1176@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Date: 8 Jul 89 22:54:53 GMT References: <57125@linus.UUCP> <1989Jun24.230056.27774@utzoo.uucp> <4909@ficc.uu.net> <1399@l.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (John Hascall) Organization: Iowa State Univ. Computation Center Lines: 21