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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
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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.