From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] caveat... optimizer? the `zero and forget' thread on HN
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:39:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9401947.ZNjmpyUpnm@coil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54081475312e69df29032eaaa29127dd@hamnavoe.com>
On Tuesday 30 of October 2012 10:26:52 Richard Miller wrote:
> > Best way to save developer time is to program in a HLL and not
> > worry about bit fiddling. C is not a HLL.
>
> C was created as a language to do bit fiddling in - a tool for writing
> assembly language a bit more productively than doing it by hand. (..)
slightly branching off:
true that. however, people still manage medium-to-high level with a bit of
macros and advanced stuff.
the other day i browsed http://9hal.ath.cx/usr/cinap_lenrek/cifsd.tgz -- looks
high-level enough for me.
putty uses home-brew coroutines in portable C, as per
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
--
dexen deVries
[[[↓][→]]]
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-29 9:45 dexen deVries
2012-10-29 10:12 ` tlaronde
2012-10-29 13:43 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 13:35 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 22:35 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-29 22:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-10-29 23:05 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-29 23:07 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 23:15 ` David Leimbach
2012-10-29 23:20 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 23:53 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-10-29 23:59 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-29 23:10 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 23:26 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-29 23:31 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-29 23:36 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 23:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-10-30 0:52 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-30 1:01 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-30 7:55 ` tlaronde
2012-10-30 0:35 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-30 1:10 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-30 3:06 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-30 3:16 ` Corey Thomasson
2012-10-30 13:08 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-30 15:15 ` arnold
2012-10-30 1:46 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-10-30 1:21 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-30 8:07 ` tlaronde
2012-10-30 10:26 ` Richard Miller
2012-10-30 10:39 ` dexen deVries [this message]
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