B as the primary programming language

[Triang3l]

Many systems have their primary high-level programming language: C on Unix, Objective-C on NeXTSTEP/iOS, Java on Android, C# on Windows Phone. I think DCPU-16 may have one, and for me the best PL would be B.

Why B?

• Typeless: everything is a machine word, just like in DCPU-16 assembly.
• You don't have to include lots of useless functions, variables and other stuff, you can use extern to include specific things.
• It's easy to learn for C and C derivative programmers.

  Problems with B.

• There's no difference between signed and unsigned numbers.

  Possible additions to B.

• Inline assembly.
• Inline functions/macros.
• Inline register access functions written in inline assembly (indirect, like div(dividend, divisor, *excess) - for direct access, use inline assembly).
• Inline signed/unsigned functions written in inline assembly.

  Some inline functions.

• putchar(char, color) // Color includes blinking
• puts(length, color) // String itself starts right after length
• Arithmetic functions with excess.
• int(address, interrupt)
• hwi(address, interrupt)

What do you think?

B reference manual.

[Triang3l]

main() should be at 0x0000.

[Blecki]

My DCPUC ( https://github.com/Blecki/DCPUC ) is very much an implementation of B. It's not complete, nor is it exactly like B, but it works the same way (everything is a word, etc).

[ghost]

What's wrong with simply using C? The programming language is meant to be an abstraction from the architecture, so why do we need things like "everything is just a word"?