Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Compilers and efficiency Message-ID: <2803849F.483A@tct.com> Date: 10 Apr 91 21:33:19 GMT References: <27fa3350.6bc2@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> <1991Apr5.172533.6717@agate.berkeley.edu> <9782@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 13 According to hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin): >There is, at present, no language designed to take into account the collection >of "natural" useful hardware which the present users can find uses for, and >which are far more expensive in software than in hardware. If Herman would write be so kind as to write a spec for such a language, we could try to implement it. We're waiting, Herman... -- Brand X Industries Custodial, Refurbishing and Containment Service: When You Never, Ever Want To See It Again [tm] Chip Salzenberg ,