Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl? Date: 27 Mar 2024 03:39:33 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <17be420c4f90bfc7$63225$1585792$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <17be75acfaf8f0f4$2017$3384359$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <17bebbae334656b9$74345$2906873$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <17bf321f9c15028e$2$2218499$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <17bf5ce92e8c43b4$672$1351842$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <17bf8777050f5c1e$7$2218499$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mYUPqWpCOnl9OpJOLwbWzgjoTVwKPDUK1bh22r6Q+/u1x4Jpao Cancel-Lock: sha1:dpk2t/czUh1TqJ+sYw0b/84FMII= sha256:ic2oWBR53vcP7CQQs8vi8a25g6fsGdN/kjGeYH8fpSg= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2133 On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:16:40 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote: > Well it says the same thing about AND and OR too, and the two of course > are used every day in high level programming. So there could be a use > for IMP in high level programming also. &, ~, |, << and >> are frequently used in C. ^ is used less frequently. All map directly to i86 instructions. SAL is the same as SHL where SAR differs from SHR and depends on signed/unsigned. ~ is NOT, 1's complement. I'm not saying there never has been a use but it hasn't had the masses clamoring for it either in HLL or machine instructions. That's your new mission. Find a non-trivial use. No long story, no complicated setup.