From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tim@franck (Tim Hollebeek) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/08/19 Message-ID: <4vard9$9rj@cnn.Princeton.EDU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 175682846 references: <01bb8c89$9023e3e0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <4v9nei$kjf@zeus.orl.mmc.com> <01bb8df1$2e19d420$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> followup-to: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada organization: Princeton University reply-to: tim@wfn-shop.princeton.edu newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com) wrote: : Well, all that is certainly true if you intentionally go out : and find the most complex, arcane architecture you can find. : If you start with a nice, simple one like a 6809 or 68000 or : something, then implementation details are practially nil. Of course, any modern CPU is going to have tons of things like register windows, delay slots, and pipelines. I'd hate to manage that stuff directly. The future appears to be RISC and/or superscalar, and both are a pain to program by hand. Of course, I could be wrong about that. But I do know one thing: Whatever chip will be in my computer 10 years from now, it will run my C code without modification. Can you say that about your assembly? BTW, where do you find the time for 10 posts a day? I don't have time to *read* everything you post :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Hollebeek | Disclaimer :=> Everything above is a true statement, Electron Psychologist | for sufficiently false values of true. Princeton University | email: tim@wfn-shop.princeton.edu ----------------------| http://wfn-shop.princeton.edu/~tim (NEW! IMPROVED!)