Peter wrote: > Olin, you must do your citizen's duty and tell all these > people stop blowing tax money on these SUPERCOMPUTERS, each of which > runs an os created by a Finn and another 2-300 anarchic Libertarians > and Communists. The os contains about 3 million lines of C ... Yes I know that's how things are. I was talking about how they should be. > There are no other languages besides C that I know, > that will scale from an 8 bit $0.5 CPU with 24 words of ram to > machines installations that are large enough that one needs a bike > and an elevator to be able to get to the toilets in time. > > As far as I know, no other language comes close to these features. A number of other languages could do that. It is only the prominence of C that has kept them from wider use. I don't see how the syntax of most compiled languages would prevent what you are talking about any more than C. And besides, C does NOT scale all that nicely to small CPUs. Once again, it is only there because it is there, which is irrelevant when discussing how things could be better as apposed to how they are. ******************************************************************** Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products (978) 742-9014. Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist