Various questions

[Andreas Eder]

Emmanuel Rialland writes:
 > I know that those questions could sound provocative and but here we=20=

 > are:
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 > 1) why C++?=20
 > why not lisp / scheme / OCaml or anything else (I remember=20
 > that simh was mentionned).=20
 > I readily admit my brains melt reading the current code.=20
 > I don't understand a lot of it.=20

Yes, good question. I'd also prefer to do it in lisp. I think it would
be a lot easier that way; not the least because of the interactive
repl, which gives you a kind of FEP :-)
Actually, I' ve done a bit of exploratory programming for examining
the load-band and the microcode band in Common Lisp and it seems to go
a lot faster. Since, at least at the moment, a lot of time an energy
is still spent on figuring things out and not producing production
quality code, I can imagin doing a dual way exploration. Why not write
code in CL if it is easier and then later translating it into C++.

As far as I can tell, the reason for doing it in C++ is, that it is
presumably easier to get something running on the bare iron. Though I
would have done it in C then. Maybe OCaml would also be a good
compromise for that.

'Andreas

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