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Re: language design after Algol 60, was Add nested-function support

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: language design after Algol 60, was Add nested-function support
Date 2018-04-10 16:04 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <18-04-031@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> writes:
>Yet, for all that complexity, "C combines the power of assembly language
>with the flexibility of assembley language"!

I wish!  The C standard allows that, but does not guarantee it, so
providing that power and flexibility is a quality-of-implementation
issue.  And unfortunately, at least the gcc and LLVM maintainers do
not want to provide this quality.  A manifesto of this position is

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html

my counter-position papers are:

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_2015_submission_29.pdf
http://www.kps2017.uni-jena.de/proceedings/kps2017_submission_5.pdf

- anton
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M. Anton Ertl
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/

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Re: language design after Algol 60, was Add nested-function support Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2018-04-10 16:11 +0100
  Re: language design after Algol 60, was Add nested-function support "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2018-04-10 16:56 +0100
  Re: language design after Algol 60, was Add nested-function support anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2018-04-10 16:04 +0000
    Re: language design after Algol 60, was Add nested-function support "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2018-04-10 23:14 +0100
      Re: language design after Algol 60, was Add nested-function support Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2018-04-13 13:55 +0100
  Re: language design after Algol 60, was Add nested-function support Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2018-04-10 11:04 -0700
  Re: language design after Algol 60, was Add nested-function support Kaz Kylheku <157-073-9834@kylheku.com> - 2018-04-10 18:38 +0000

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