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From: aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM
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Subject: Re: Bandwidth and RISC vs. CISC
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Date: 30 Apr 89 13:14:00 GMT
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>Herman.
>
>Please describe a language, higher level than forth, that will provide
>all the tools you feel you need in a HLL. I am about convinced that such
>a language is impossible.
>
>Thanks,
>	your partner in monomania,
>		Peter da Silva.
>-- 
>Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

If I remember correctly, POP-2 had some nice mechanisms for accessing 
the underlying machine. As did Algol-68.

Myself, I'm just about happy with GNU CC style assembly function
inlining, and C++ function overloading and typing. Although I haven't
used G++ yet, to see what they would feel like together.