Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!cdollin!kers From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Modifiability Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 08:35:05 GMT References: <2192@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> <1991Jun5.201807.13286@netcom.COM> <2195@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> <1991Jun6.230049.19029@netcom.COM> Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator) Distribution: comp.software-eng Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: jls@netcom.COM's message of 6 Jun 91 23:00:49 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: cdollin.hpl.hp.com Jim Showalter says (including lots of Good Things): Implement in a software-engineering-oriented language (may I suggest Ada?). Program design is language design. Since you'd probably like to write in a language suitable for the domain, why not face the fact, invest in language processing techniques, write the system in a ``suitable'' language, and compile (not necessarily into machine code) the result? It doesn't much matter then what language you had around to begin with, although it's nice if you can coerce it into being a suitable compilation target. -- Regards, Kers. "If anything anyone licks, they'll find it all ready in sticks."