Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

["John Barham" <jbarham@gmail.com>]

Pietro Gagliardi wrote:

> The compiler generates Assembly in a temporary file,
> then calls up the assembler to make the program.

That sounds somewhat similar to Dan Bernstein's qhasm
(http://cr.yp.to/qhasm.html) which is a semi-portable assembly
language combining C-like syntax w/ direct access to registers.
Anathema to the Plan 9 philosophy I suppose but given that clock
speeds seem to have hit a wall it's one way to wring out more speed.
To be fair he seems to intend it to be used only for number crunching
inner loops rather than as a general purpose language.

  John