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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:39:19 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] caveat... optimizer? the `zero and forget' thread on HN
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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.
>=20
> C was created as a language to do bit fiddling in - a tool for writin=
g
> 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=20
macros and advanced stuff.

the other day i browsed http://9hal.ath.cx/usr/cinap_lenrek/cifsd.tgz -=
- looks=20
high-level enough for me.

putty uses home-brew coroutines in portable C, as per=20
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

--=20
dexen deVries

[[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]]


How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
                -- R. Buckminster Fuller