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From: gateley@m2.csc.ti.com (John Gateley)
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Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language?
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Date: 19 Feb 90 16:44:50 GMT
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In article <12507@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> kjj@varese.UUCP (Kevin Johnson) writes:
>1. How about string operators.
>	I hate handling allocing of space for something silly like strings...

But, string sizes are not known at compile time, and so must be handled
by the heap (i.e. alloc).

>3. Ability to use existing C libraries and headers.

This is truly a difficult problem, because you have to say: "whats so
special about C, I want my <foo> libraries" where <foo> might be Ada,
Lisp, PDP-11 assembler, or whatever. Instead, why not write a routine
which, given a C library, would convert it into a library for the new
language. This would involve changing the entry points a little, but
that should be about it.

John
gateley@m2.csc.ti.com