On 5/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
your point?
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.
i dont know about the transputer and occam but im aware that some systems dont need assembly for writing system software. if only we have a choice. you want to start tinkering with fpgas? actually its not hard to create a processor that is generic enough that it does not need assembly and is not locked to any target language.
