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gep2@terabites.com wrote:
>
> > I think this is where things come together: Different languages for different
> parts of an application.
>
> Maybe you should build a vehicle which is simultaneously a boat, an airplane, a
> car and a submarine, too. That way you can meld those disparate parts into a
> cohesive (cough!) whole, too. ;-)
I don't understand: What is the relevance?
How is using different tools (Icon,ProLog,C, etc. - or hammer, wrench, screwdriver, etc) to build something related to building
things that are many things at the same time?
>
> To suggest that Icon's appeal for writing an assembler is limited only to the
> initial syntactical parsing of tokens is pretty ludicrous.
If someone would suggest something like that, I would have to agree ...
>
> No, not if those decisions are relatively simple... that's like using atomic
> weapons to kill mosquitos.
We don't use atomic weapons to kill anything ... we build things, and a part of that is to consider different tools.
>
> Icon's goal-directed evaluation can be a wonderful tool for analyzing various
> possible instruction sequences and rating them based on size, performance, and
> other criteria. Icon also makes it hugely simpler to create all manner of
> statistics and summaries and other information (and present it nicely) regarding
> the program being processed, too.
Suddenly a fresh breath of common sense. Than you!
>
> something). And if you were GOING to optimize for just one processor, I'd think
> it would make more sense to do it for an AMD processor, since I believe that
> with recent stupid moves by Intel, I think you're going to see a lot of market
> share slip out of Intel's hands and into those of AMD.
First the decision should be made whether to optimize, and find good tools for that. Deciding what processor to optimize for - that
will be done automatically: Whatever processor is available to me.
>
Stay focused!
Atle