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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,9ca52c8981c1b86a X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: One other possible reason for the C predominance Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:36:12 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: XQBzyQfeBLgc2RJf6Vcdrg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19342 Date: 2011-03-22T16:36:12+01:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:12:23 +0100, Ludovic Brenta = a =C3=A9crit: > Yannick Duch=C3=AAne wrote: >> So C, as language, became something to which architectures adapted, = >> instead of the opposite. > > Not sure about that. I think the hardware architectures became > simpler and more orthogonal simply because the cost of memory was > dropping, such that compactness of executable code became less and > less of an issue. The trend continued with RISC. Yes, I abused the interpretation here, you're right. > No, C was not a precursor; Lisp ("discovered" in 1954) was. Lisp even= > produced a hardware architecture optimized for running Lisp bytecode, > see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine. That was not exactly what I was attempting to say (this was related to m= y = above erroneous interpretation). -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9C c++; /* this makes c bigger but returns the old value */ =E2=80= =9D [Anonymous]