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== Goals == | == Goals == | ||
| + | * Small (same scale as C) and basically C like | ||
| + | * Match actual machine model, better (more modern) than C | ||
| + | * "Higher level" features such as inheritance and RTTI come from libraries. As with C++ you shouldn't pay for what you don't use but we should do better than C++. | ||
| + | * Exceptions may be the exception to the above rule. | ||
| + | * Memory model which supports threading and thread primitives. | ||
| + | * Thread primitives support the following models: | ||
| + | ** Pipes (thread safe Queue messaging system) | ||
| + | ** parallel algorithms (parallel reduce, for_each, etc. - see Intel Thread Building Blocks) | ||
| + | ** simple atomic increment/decrement for shared structures (ref counting for immutable objects and copy-on-write) | ||
| + | * Full compile time introspection (runtime introspection as a library). | ||
| + | * Support the C linkage model | ||
| + | * "Semantic Spaces" | ||
| + | * Library versioning (part of semantic spaces?) | ||
| + | * Value semantics | ||
| + | * Some level of concept support | ||
| + | * Indexed types (Not quite sure how to build this) | ||
| + | * Functions (with state) are first class | ||
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== Non-Goals == | == Non-Goals == | ||
== Grammar == | == Grammar == | ||
== Reference == | == Reference == | ||
Revision as of 00:14, 6 September 2007
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Goals
- Small (same scale as C) and basically C like
- Match actual machine model, better (more modern) than C
- "Higher level" features such as inheritance and RTTI come from libraries. As with C++ you shouldn't pay for what you don't use but we should do better than C++.
- Exceptions may be the exception to the above rule.
- Memory model which supports threading and thread primitives.
- Thread primitives support the following models:
** Pipes (thread safe Queue messaging system) ** parallel algorithms (parallel reduce, for_each, etc. - see Intel Thread Building Blocks) ** simple atomic increment/decrement for shared structures (ref counting for immutable objects and copy-on-write)
- Full compile time introspection (runtime introspection as a library).
- Support the C linkage model
- "Semantic Spaces"
- Library versioning (part of semantic spaces?)
- Value semantics
- Some level of concept support
- Indexed types (Not quite sure how to build this)
- Functions (with state) are first class
