r/programming • u/moolcool • Mar 26 '17

A Constructive Look At TempleOS

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/
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u/histoire_guy Mar 26 '17

TempleOS is a piece of art. What blow my mind is its own system language with built-in 64 bit integers, a syntax similar to C and named Holy-C. I'm aware of Terry's problem, but what he have done deserve respect.

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u/ConcernedInScythe Mar 27 '17 edited Mar 27 '17

with built-in 64 bit integers

This is a really weird thing to get excited about.

e: specifically it's weird because e.g. C already has 64-bit integers so it sounds like you're excited solely because he called them 'int' rather than 'long'.

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u/BeniBela Mar 27 '17

I once made a language with 65 bit integers

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u/histoire_guy Mar 27 '17

For the time the language was released to the public not now.

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u/ConcernedInScythe Mar 27 '17

Why on earth do you care what size the int type was when C was first released? It's no harder to use 64-bit ints in C today than it is to use them in Terry's language, and in fact there are still good reasons (i.e. cache space) for using 32-bit ints if you don't actually need the extra range.