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   Anton Ertl to Billy Mays   
   Re: Language Design   
   19 Jul 11 13:12:39   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   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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   M. Anton Ertl   
   anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
   http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/   
      
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