Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming

["Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>]

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> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:57:07 +0200, "Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now>
> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:32:51 +0000, Simon Williams wrote:
> >
> >> though if there is an HTML
> >> interpreter available for the Apple II I'd be very pleased to hear
about
> >> it :)
> >
> >Take a look at Contiki, it contains an HTML interpreter.
>
> Feh... what was emacs written in?  Teco scripts lead to Vteco were
> handy as are DCL derived appications.
>
> If you can do it in asm you can do it in any languge that is
> sufficiently complete.    However I've love to see some one write HTML
> that can set Bit 3 of the DDR on a port.
>
> It's all noise most of this.
>
> Allison

I would love to see someone control a port at a non-standard address in
Basic, Fortran, Cobol, C, C++, etc without using extensions beyond the
standard language.  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.  Many computer languages do have limitations built into them.
One good example is reentrant code, some can some can not.