From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.65.109 with SMTP id w13mr756049pas.21.1405115040006; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:44:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.29.38 with SMTP id g6mr14799obh.12.1405115039718; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.ripco.com!news.glorb.com!r10no1170614igi.0!news-out.google.com!bp9ni7igb.0!nntp.google.com!h18no272697igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:43:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.252.147.203; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.252.147.203 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: "The Machine" and Ada (blog post) From: "Dan'l Miller" Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:43:59 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20885 Date: 2014-07-11T14:43:59-07:00 List-Id: On Saturday, June 21, 2014 7:50:18 AM UTC-5, Victor Porton wrote: > Read my blog post why I recommend to use Ada on The Machine (a new comput= er=20 > architecture by Hewlett Packard): >=20 > http://portonsoft.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/the-machine-and-ada/ >=20 > We should create a strong coupling of The Machine and Ada, for success of= =20 > both projects. Victor, this thread never really discussed your technical content. Strong = coupling or not, what do you foresee as the changes needed to compiled most= ly-imperative (slightly-declarative) programming languages such as Ada, to = best support HP's new computer architecture? Or for that matter, why is Ad= a better suited for HP's new computer architecture than, say, C or interpre= ted scripts, say, Python? What I am looking for is something to the effect of: Forth was a language = that is best suited for the era where accessing DRAM was only slightly slow= er than accessing registers within a microprocessor. Once the rate of intr= a-processor accesses to registers and various levels of cache accelerated f= aster the rate of DRAM accesses throughout the 1980s through 200Xs decades,= Forth's very chattery tiny little functions and numerous stack operations = became painfully slow compared with compiled machine-code in, say, C during= those decades. Changing or tweaking the computer architecture does have i= mpact in imperative programming languages.