DBrown@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (06/14/84)
I like the "D" proposal about specifying ranges in a quite-high-level high-level language, but what I'd really like is a new, shiny rather-low-level high-level language like BCPL, B, C,.... Call it L and stick this on the wish list: one data type for each primitive data type in the hardware, and one operator for every opcode in the hardware. Admittedly it would only port to machines designed in the same era (pdp-11/vax/honeybun/3bs2 are the C examples), but it would certainly cut down on having to use circumlocutions. --dave (take with mine of salt) brown DBrown @ HI-MULTICS.ARPA watbun!drbrown @ watmath.UUCP