Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: Compilers, architecture, and efficiency Message-ID: Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation References: <1991Apr28.154603.8003@rice.edu> <1991Apr29.155945.29907@rice.edu> <11713@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 1 May 91 20:39:21 GMT In article <11713@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: > I am asking the compiler writers and language designers to do what is > normally done in other fields; do not freeze the language, and allow the > user to augment it with convenient notation. There have been languages with that capability: Lisp, or Forth, or Smalltalk, for example. Why not look there for your needs? > Do not deprive the driver of the gas pedal and the steering wheel. No problem, but should the driver want to add a supercharger he should be expected to learn something about the engine. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"