From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <463D7F37.2040001@conducive.org> Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 15:09:43 +0800 From: W B Hacker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c2c10be-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: >> On 5/6/07, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: >> >>> You may not have noticed, as it is no longer a popular approach, that >>> earlier Unixes provided innumerable tools to generate C code. So much >>> so that the "goto" was retained more to make such code generation >>> easier than to please a handful of spoiled programmers. >>> >> your point? >> > That C and not assembler ought to be the target language, no matter > the application. That assembler is deprecated in favour of C. > > ++L > > If that ever comes to pass, I'm going back to a wire-wrap tool. There *can be no* one-size fits-all final answers unless and until all progress is to be called off and stagnation and decline to the death are mandated from on-high. Not even for biologicals with billion+ year history. 'adapt or die' may have long cycle, but it is an unforgiving one. Bill