Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc

of course if i am creating my own processor i would make sure i dont
need to use assembly at all. but then other programmers would want
their favorite language to be supported as well and they will likely
end up creating their own processor. not a good situation.

You may not have noticed, as it is no longer a popular approach, that
earlier Unixes provided innumerable tools to generate C code. So much
so that the "goto" was retained more to make such code generation
easier than to please a handful of spoiled programmers.

The idea, unless I got things badly wrong by not being aware of that
history as it occurred, was that C would be the target language of
choice. It is sad that engineers prefer to design at a lower level
than that, and that a middle ground is no longer even being sought.
Forsyth may be able to tell you a bit about the Transputer and Occam,
just to show that history does not have to repeat itself.

++L

PS: I keep thinking that this is not 9fans, but rather
alt.folklore.computers. Does anyone out there have a copy of
Hollingdale and Toothill (Digital Computers, was it?) that they would
be willing to part with for a moderate amount of money?

.

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