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From:         David Collier-Brown <daveb at geac.uucp>
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In article <7501 at sol.ARPA> quiroz at cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz) writes:
| Herman Rubin has consistently criticized in this group high-level
| language designers/implementors for not producing the portable
| assembler he wishes to use [several paragraphs deleted]
| My personal guess is that, were he to try, Rubin would come out with
| a language in the general class of C/Bliss/BCPL.  The exercise would
| be fruitful still: no more negative comments, once he realizes that
| language designers are not (totally) crazy, and that "progress in
| programming", if anything, means getting *away* from the vagaries of
| the hardware.

   Published last year (or maybe the one before) in Dr. Dobb's: a
subset-language of C which was in fact an assembler for a 68k
machine.

   And the idea is to get away from the vagaries without losing
the capabilities.  The latter is surprisingly hard, the turing
machine notwithstanding.

--dave (doesn't anyone read any more?) c-b

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