Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!vsi1!wyse!mips!rmg
From: rmg@mips.COM (Richard M. Geiger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: using (ugh!  yetch!) assembler
Message-ID: <2725@quacky.mips.COM>
Date: 6 Aug 88 16:34:56 GMT
References: <11701@steinmetz.ge.com> <933@esunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: rmg@quacky.UUCP (Richard M. Geiger)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <933@esunix.UUCP> sedwards@esunix.UUCP (Scott Edwards) writes:
>Now after that statement this is going to sound real strange, but I
>think that the problem with the current HLL's is that they are not
>high enough, I would like a HLL that knows about trees, linked lists,
>etc. and how to deal with them, so I don't have to code all of the
>normal operations (insert, delete, etc) on them every time I use one.

If you find yourself recoding these things a lot, why not do it
once in a good set of library functions and then use those?

While there may very well be a lack of these things in any of the
"most standard" libraries, this seems to stuff that belongs in library
functions, not the language.

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