21 Sep
1998
21 Sep
'98
7:18 a.m.
Woe is me. Did I start this language war? Before somebody suggests ANSI
COBOL, let me once again remind you that it was the portability of the
binary program and execution environment that I was talking about, and not
portability of the source code. If the simulator author distributes
source code, then that is good documentation for the simulated
architecture no matter what language she uses, although it will almost
certainly involve a porting effort to get it running on
machine-X-of-the-future because most language standards don't define a
rich I/O package. And I doubt that a sim that is written in, say, portable
C and uses stdio will be very interesting to run.
-- Doug