🚀 go-pugleaf

tbeaubie@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Todd Beaubien) writes ...
>I've been saying that for a long time as many of my fellow CS majors
>just gush about how much they like C and distain languages like Ada,
>Pascal, and Lisp (not that I care for turning my brain inside out to
>do lisp and recurse everything, mind you :-) ).
>
>I keep telling them, "Why would I want to program in C? If I wanted
>to do assembly language, I'd just do assembly language!"

However, C _is_ a high level language, and computer architecture designers
are starting to come up with designs that are easier for compilers to 
deal with and harder for people.  In particular superscalar designs with
varying latencies and opportunities for things like speculative execution
makes it likely that a compiler may actually be able to consistently do
a better job of code generation than can programmers.

And if you think that thinking in Lisp is tough, just try some Prolog
"programming".  Eeech.  Hurts my brain just to think about it.  Rather
use Ada anyway.

Ray
rfischer@cs.stanford.edu