From: nospam@myisp.net   
      
   > Steven Shaw wrote:   
      
   > [C can be a perfectly reasonable intermediate language so long as you   
   > don't expect the C code to be readable by humans or to look anything   
   > like the source code. -John]   
      
   The key word being the very subjective "reasonable"? If one wanted a   
   replacement language for C, but with a completely different type   
   system, would C be a "reasonable" IL? It seems undoable for efficiency   
   reasons.  I'm not sure how one would go about implementing a   
   language's type system in C and still get high performance. That is,   
   performance equivalent to C.   
   [C's type system is intended to be pretty close to what the hardware   
   provides. You want a different type system, you can encode it using   
   C's types. Think if it as a sort of high level assembler. -John]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)