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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Software Technology is NOT Primitive
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 21:12:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 21:12:49 1987
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In article <3603@sol.ARPA>, crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
> I think that just the opposite is true.  Designing a language around
> optimizing the use of a specific machine is likely to leave a language so
> riddled with special case restrictions as to be hopelessly complex.

I'd agree in the case of the intel processors and PL/M, but I think 'C' has
been served quite well by the PDP-11 programming model.
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