Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming

[wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>]

"White Flame \(aka David Holz\)" <whiteflame52@y.a.h.o.o.com> wrote in
news:bd5bht$8fu$1@barad-dur.nas.com: 

> "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:RFoJa.7756$mS2.5421@fe04.atl2.webusenet.com...
>> The truth is that your statement "If you can do it in
>> asm you can do it in any language that is sufficiently complete." is
>> not quite true.
> 
> Another example is the Carry bit.  I don't recall ever seeing a
> high-level language that exposes it.  It'd be great for doing bignums,
> or bit processing.
> 

Well C/C++ handles this kind of stuff and is technically a high-level 
compiling language as C/C++ source is mere ASCII text files and can 
compiles. BASIC can technically do this if someone ever expanded the 
language to do it. It is just a matter of building a text statement + value 
contain to be parsed down into an ML routine that does this. BASIC breaks 
text into token which are linked to ML subroutines. Then pass stuff like 
text as value.