Re: Pragmatic Requirements Summary : update

--- In [email protected], Matt Lawrence <matt@t...> 
wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Brian Hurt wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Eric Merritt wrote:
> > 
> > >  PL/I is still used just not much. I am pretty sure that one-to-
> > > allness wasnt the only thing wrong with PL/1
> > 
> > No.  But it was the only language I could think of besides C and 
assembly 
> > that has had (more or less) successfull OSs written in it 
(Multics).  And 
> > it was the first language- that I'm aware of- that was advertised 
as being 
> > all things to all people.
> 
> Thirty years ago Burroughs was writing OSes in an Algol dialect.  
It 
> worked very well.  There has also been some OS stuff done in Forth 
that 
> seemed to go ok.

 There are some excellent forth OSes.

> 
> This brings me to an observation: dual stack machines seem to work 
very 
> well.  However, the memory model used in C uses a single stack 
_and_ most 
> of the CPU design over the last 15 years has been focussed on 
making C 
> code run really fast.  Thoughts?
> 
> -- Matt
 
> -- 
> From my heart and from my hand, why don't people understand my 
intention?


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