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Article #4960Re: Software Technology is NOT Primitive
From: peter
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1987 02:12
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1987 02:12
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In article <3603@sol.ARPA>, crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) writes: > I think that just the opposite is true. Designing a language around > optimizing the use of a specific machine is likely to leave a language so > riddled with special case restrictions as to be hopelessly complex. I'd agree in the case of the intel processors and PL/M, but I think 'C' has been served quite well by the PDP-11 programming model. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!elroy!cit-vax!oberon!bloom-beacon!husc6!bbn!rochester!udel!gatech!ukma!uunet!nuchat!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Software Technology is NOT Primitive Message-ID: <953@sugar.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 21:12:49 EST Article-I.D.: sugar.953 Posted: Fri Oct 30 21:12:49 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 19:52:20 EST References: <3405@ece-csc.UUCP> <638@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <1811@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <3603@sol.ARPA> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 10