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Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: volatiles
Summary: Edison
Message-ID: <2611@geac.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 11:44:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2611
Posted: Tue Apr 19 07:44:51 1988
References: <1394@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1530@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <1412@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <2584@ttrdc.UUCP> <1414@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <4437@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: The Geac "Per Brinch Hanson" Department
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| In article <1414@pt.cs.cmu.edu> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
||     Another option for you is to consider developing an entire new
|| language with multi-tasking support.  Design it in such way that it
|| is easy to optimize, and is general enough to describe external events
|| such as hardware as a special task.

   Ok, see below...

In article <4437@ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) writes:
| Do you intend to rewrite all of Unix and all the C applications currently
| in use in your new language?  And are you willing to train all the people
| who are going to use this new language?  And what do we do during the three
| or four years that it is going to take to fully develop this language?
| Writing an entirely new language is not a viable solution for the short
| term.

   Short term?  The short term is **always** already over.  

   The language has existed for a number of years, was announced in
a special issue of Software, Practice and Experience, has a small
but vocal programmer base, is used in several Universitys to teach
Operating Systems and is even available on an IBM Poisonous Computer...

  Per Brinch Hansen's "Edison":

  while (not done)
	outputBuffer = inputBuffer;
	cobegin 1
		fill(inputBuffer,stream1);
	and 2
		empty(outputBuffer,stream2);
	coend
  end while

--dave (minor syntactics errors admitted) c-b
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