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Article #6761Re: Anyone want to design a language?
From: Nick Rothwell
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 16:28
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 16:28
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In article <12336@csli.Stanford.EDU>, poser@csli (Bill Poser) writes: >I don't quite agree. It's true that there are too many low-level >languages (and there probably always will be), but there is a role >for languages of this type. Many of the new-fangled languages are either >nice for limited sorts of tasks (e.g. logic programming languages) >or carry with them a lot of overhead and or "protection" from low-level >aspects of the machine. However much you may like ML or Prolog or >whatever, there is a role for system programming languages, and C >is one of the best. True; but the original article said something about programmers being able to agree on the nice features of a language; whereas what you're saying above (and I agree) is that this will never happen, since (for example) I'm going to be hacking away in C on my Mac for a long while yet, even though I think C is dreadful and that programming language design has moved on a long way. I think, though, that any serious time and effort on designing a better C-style language would be better spent getting decent modern languages to a state of maturity. Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ...als das Kind, Kind war...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language? Message-ID: <2386@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 20 Feb 90 16:28:27 GMT References: <22569:05:10:24@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <2346@castle.ed.ac.uk> <12336@csli.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Waldorf Micro-Wave Tracking/Sighting/Authentication Subcommittee Lines: 27 In-reply-to: poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)