ambiguous ?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <14094 at lanl.gov> jlg at lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
> Systems programming
> is the one context in which I would insist upon the _most_
> unambiguously designed language available.

If you could force designers to produce a standard hardware architecture
that is unambiguously designed then this would be a worthwhile goal.

Sometimes even C is to large, clumsy, and/or overspecified for some set
of problems. Like, very small embedded controllers.

What does "ERROR=label" mean in an embedded application?
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