xxicc

XXICC (21st Century Co-design) is a not-for-profit research project which attempts to bring digital hardware/software co-design into the 21st Century using an improved programming language and a Reduced Software Complexity philosophy. Its goal is to make it easier and more enjoyable to write and maintain digital hardware and software. XXICC is pronounced “Chicken Coop”, so-called because it has so many layers. XXICC’s GalaxC programming language narrows the gap between problem domain and language by allowing programmers to extend GalaxC by adding problem domain notations. Instead of adapting the task to the language, they adapt GalaxC to the task. The key extension mechanism in GalaxC is separation of syntax from semantics, a simple yet powerful way to add new notations. This is directly adapted from the Galaxy programming language developed in the late 1980s. GalaxC programs may consist of ordinary ASCII characters and white space, like C. However, GalaxC prog