From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun,  6 May 2007 18:55:45 -0700
From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
In-reply-to: <2dfedae8277e35d6c141fb0b67f95de3@9netics.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Message-id: <1178502945.12482.59.camel@linux.site>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
References: <2dfedae8277e35d6c141fb0b67f95de3@9netics.com>
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5ddcc796-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 23:04 -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> i think this has gone off track. 

  ain't that the fun? ;-)

>  i read brucee's original post as an
> argument against polluting c with asm()/__asm{}. 

  As always -- brucee is articulating a point that reminds me
of paternalistic, patronizing laws. Look, CPUs are giving me
a particular language and C doesn't cover all of it. Brucee
tells us: tough luck -- you can't have that richer vocabulary, 
I say we need to think of something that lets us tap into that 
pool of extra words. And yes some of them can be dirty words,
but even they are REALLY needed from time to time. I dislike
potty mouths as much as the next guy (and GCC __asm is way 
too potty for my taste) but I can really appreciate a fine
use of F2K words(*).  

Thanks,
Roman.

(*) there's probably a connection between this statement and
the fact that Russian is one of the languages where F2K
vocabulary is REALLY rich ;-)