On May 4, 2008, at 10:24 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: Set for the next release: bit arrays. "I'd use plan 9 before i'd use bitfields" -- pjw I'm aware of that quote. The design of bit arrays will be totally different from the design of bitfields. They are true arrays that can be used in an...

> Set for the next release: bit arrays. "I'd use plan 9 before i'd use bitfields" -- pjw funny, i've only know him as a bit array. - erik

> Set for the next release: bit arrays. "I'd use plan 9 before i'd use bitfields" -- pjw

...: I think the quote of the day was "We already support one C-like language". brucee On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:57 PM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> ... you still using it? A victim of rationalisation and reality: maintaining separate libraries for two languages is a luxury Plan 9 colud no longer afford, if I understood the rationale at the time. ++L ...

I think the quote of the day was "We already support one C-like language". brucee On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:57 PM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote: Just ... are some of you still using it? A victim of rationalisation and reality: maintaining separate libraries for two languages is a luxury Plan 9 colud no longer afford, if I understood the rationale at the time. ++L

> Just out of curiosity, why did alef die, or are some of you still using it? A victim of rationalisation and reality: maintaining separate libraries for two languages is a luxury Plan 9 colud no longer afford, if I understood the rationale at the time. ++L

....yp.to/qhasm.html) which is a semi-portable assembly language combining C-like syntax w/ direct access to registers. Anathema to the Plan 9 philosophy I suppose but given that clock speeds seem to have hit a wall it's...number crunching inner loops rather than as a general purpose language. issues per clock have been rising on intel chips. ibm...

... (http://cr.yp.to/qhasm.html) which is a semi-portable assembly language combining C-like syntax w/ direct access to registers. Anathema to the Plan 9 philosophy I suppose but given that clock speeds seem to have hit a wall it's one way... it to be used only for number crunching inner loops rather than as a general purpose language. John

A new Bentley is up. This defines hopefully all of the bitwise operators I will support: & | ^ << > ~ (as in C) <@ @ (roll left and roll right, also called circular shift) I'm still working on the base language, getting type checking working and allowing logical AND, OR, XOR, NOT. But perhaps the hardest part is writing the manual for this language.

... Python, and prevents the nesting ambiguity of C, Pascal, and some other languages that use block delimiters. don't forget fortran. I try ... #f, where # is the prefix (so 8f for 386). A new Bentley is up, in the usual place. This adds full procedures and...will have it right-associative (a := b := c := 0). I also plan to have scope. I'm surprised at how quickly I'm getting ...