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From: Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Language ranking
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:03:16 -0600
Date: 2014-04-04T18:03:16-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bLH%u.2712$M93.1925@fx18.iad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.xdte56m0ule2fv@cardamome>

On 04-Apr-14 17:21, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> C is special case though, as it's often used as a target language (or a
> portable assembly language).

There are other languages where you could do this, too.
Forth comes to mind as a possible alternative as it's supposed to be 
pretty dang easy to implement/re-target.

> Talking about C, one should always have two
> very distinct cases in mind: hand‑written C
> and software generated C,
> and not confuse both.

I'm still critical of the SW generated stuff; unless you've done some 
sort of formal verification on the generation itself you're merely 
losing any accuracy/safety in the name of 'portability' because "every 
environment has a C compiler."


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-05  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-02  7:38 Language ranking Simon Wright
2014-04-02 20:25 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-03 15:05   ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 16:26     ` Shark8
2014-04-03 23:12       ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 23:24         ` Shark8
2014-04-04 13:43           ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 21:19           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-04 22:21             ` Shark8
2014-04-04 23:21       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-05  0:03         ` Shark8 [this message]
2014-04-05  0:40         ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 17:13     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-03 23:14       ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 23:12       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-03 21:20     ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-04 22:59       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-03 21:23     ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-03 23:21       ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04  0:43         ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-04  1:19           ` Shark8
2014-04-04  8:30             ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-04 16:42               ` Shark8
2014-04-05  7:41                 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-04-05  9:39                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-05  9:45                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-04  3:44           ` tmoran
2014-04-04 21:14             ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-05  2:16               ` tmoran
2014-04-04 23:17         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-04  3:44       ` tmoran
2014-04-04 22:37 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-04 22:57   ` Adam Beneschan
2014-04-04 23:25     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)

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