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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: Language Design
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:12:39 GMT
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Billy Mays <81282ed9a88799d21e77957df2d84bd6514d9af6@myhashismyemail.com> writes:
>I am trying to design a programming language for a simple processor
>(16 bit, ~10 instructions, 16 registers).  I am not sure what a
>language actually needs in order to be more useful than pure assembly,
>but is also reasonable to implement.
>
>I had originally tried to make a RPN style language where the language
>is purely stack based, but I realized it wouldn't be Turing complete.

Why not.  Anyway, you can implement Forth or something similar, which
is Turing-complete and relatively easy to implement.

- anton
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