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From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Asm VS HOL (pl360)
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 15:50:56 EDT
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Ned Horvath writes:
> But I suspect that what killed the likes of PL360 was advancing compiler
> technology.  A lot of us learned C using the Ritchie compiler on the 11,
> and it didn't take too many 'cc -S' runs to convince you the thing wrote
> HOT code;...

A supporting example is LIL (Bill Plauger's Little Implementation Language
at BTL in the early 70's), which has about the same semantic level as PL/360,
and never quite caught on.  Bill once gave a talk in which he said that
LIL was a language whose time had come... and gone, because every time
he thought he had a niche where it beat C enough, Dennis improved the compiler.
-- 
-john mashey
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