Yes! high level languages should be used to write systems software

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Yes! high level languages should be used to write systems software

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ACM Annual Conference/Annual Meeting archive
Proceedings of the 1975 annual conference table of contents

Pages: 206 - 208

Year of Publication: 1975

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James J. Horning

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

It has frequently been remarked that it is easier recognize “high level” languages than to define the concept. For the purposes of this debate, however, I think that we agree that a language is high level to the extent that it discourages (forbids) the specification of machine details (register numbers, absolute addresses, op codes, word-packing, etc.) as a routine part of program composition and low level to the extent that it encourages (requires) such specification. (Note that, by this definition, assembly languages occupy a position intermediate between machine languages and compiled languages.) Thus, I take the point at issue to be: “To what extent is it desirable for the system programmer to specify machine details?”

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Daniel Frampton , Stephen M. Blackburn , Perry Cheng , Robin J. Garner , David Grove , J. Eliot B. Moss , Sergey I. Salishev, Demystifying magic: high-level low-level programming, Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments, March 11-13, 2009, Washington, DC, USA

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Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
D.3.2 Language Classifications
Subjects: Very high-level languages