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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       --       M. Anton Ertl       anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at       http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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