Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!yale!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!MAILER%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU From: MAILER%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Undelivered mail Message-ID: <12256@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 12 Mar 88 04:46:35 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 43 Subject: Re: Portable asm [Non-Deliverable: User does not exist or has never logged on] Reply-To: Info-C@BRL.ARPA Received: From UWAVM(MAILER) by ALASKA with Jnet id 6325 for SXJVK@ALASKA; Fri, 11 Mar 88 19:35 AST Received: by UWAVM (Mailer X1.25) id 4131; Fri, 11 Mar 88 20:34:45 PST Date: Wed, 9 Mar 88 17:42:12 GMT Reply-To: Info-C@BRL.ARPA Sender: Info-C List From: David Collier-Brown Subject: Re: Portable asm Comments: To: info-c@brl-smoke.arpa To: Vic Kapella In article <7501@sol.ARPA> quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz) writes: | Herman Rubin has consistently criticized in this group high-level | language designers/implementors for not producing the portable | assembler he wishes to use [several paragraphs deleted] | My personal guess is that, were he to try, Rubin would come out with | a language in the general class of C/Bliss/BCPL. The exercise would | be fruitful still: no more negative comments, once he realizes that | language designers are not (totally) crazy, and that "progress in | programming", if anything, means getting *away* from the vagaries of | the hardware. Published last year (or maybe the one before) in Dr. Dobb's: a subset-language of C which was in fact an assembler for a 68k machine. And the idea is to get away from the vagaries without losing the capabilities. The latter is surprisingly hard, the turing machine notwithstanding. --dave (doesn't anyone read any more?) c-b -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor yunexus utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.