From: news.crd.ge.com!e7sa!groleau@uunet.uu.net (Wes Groleau x1240 C73-8)
Subject: Re: forth/fifth generation languages?
Date: 13 Aug 93 15:19:54 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CBpEL6.7v4@crdnns.crd.ge.com> (raw)
In article <CBKG89.4vx@zoodle.robin.de> uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel) wri
tes:
>In article <FOUTS.93Aug8152353@cello.hp.com> fouts@cello.hp.com (Marty Fouts)
>writes:
>> Almost no one programs in machine language anymore, because
>> translators are nearly trivial to write.
>
>That's not true. On mainframes most patches are done this way. painframe
>indeed.
>Not only mainframes. A translator is not trivial when your machine has
only 16K of magnetic core, no external interfaces, small scale integration
(RTL), only 18 instructions, a design quirk that makes re-entrant subroutines
impossible, ... there's more, but you get the idea. A stunning example of
"If it works, don't mess with it!" Of course, I taught someone else how to
program it and moved on to "real" computers :-)
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1993-08-13 15:19 Wes Groleau x1240 C73-8 [this message]
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1993-08-12 2:45 forth/fifth generation languages? munnari.oz.au!sol.deakin.OZ.AU!usenet
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1993-08-09 22:00 Robert Dewar
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