From: jan.de.kruyf@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to strengthen it?
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 08:22:58 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-06-04T08:22:58-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99904f24-e0e4-4f99-8a6a-109c2d55d3fa@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mkij9o$5aq$1@loke.gir.dk>
On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 11:36:57 PM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Ah, yes, one of my old college textbooks. The professor of the class had
> never used it before, and we ended up spending lots of class-time trying to
> figure out how the algorithms should work. They were riddled with errors.
> Apparently, running the sample programs was a novel concept. (Dunno if those
> problems were fixed in a later edition, hopefully. I've heard from others
> that they thought the book was useful, so YMMV)
>
> Randy.
Randy, you are confusing Stone Age with post-modernity again ;>
From you writing I gather that that must have been shortly after the ALGOL age as described in the HeerdeBeer thesis above.
I was trying my hand at basic at the time, so perhaps we all came a long way since then.
cheers and keep smiling
j.
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2015-05-21 19:11 Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to strengthen it? Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-21 19:29 ` AdaMagica
2015-05-22 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-22 7:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-22 8:54 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-22 11:29 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-22 12:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-22 14:01 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-22 14:34 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-23 11:09 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-22 15:37 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-22 16:29 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-22 17:39 ` Simon Clubley
2015-05-22 17:51 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-22 19:41 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-22 20:04 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-22 20:32 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-22 21:22 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-23 11:14 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-23 12:42 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-23 17:48 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-25 8:34 ` Pascal Obry
2015-05-25 10:22 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-25 18:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-22 20:39 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-28 22:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 6:56 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-23 12:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-25 7:14 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-25 12:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-25 18:44 ` Shark8
2015-05-25 19:54 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-25 21:25 ` Shark8
2015-05-26 7:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-26 8:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-25 20:01 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-25 20:04 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-25 20:37 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-26 7:52 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-05-26 11:43 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-26 15:38 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-28 23:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 8:51 ` Stefan.Lucks
2015-05-29 18:04 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-29 21:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-30 10:28 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-30 11:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-30 13:21 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-30 15:00 ` Simon Clubley
2015-05-30 18:40 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-30 16:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-30 20:52 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-31 8:31 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-31 8:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-04 15:31 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-06-04 17:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-04 20:14 ` Shark8
2015-06-04 23:12 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-06-01 21:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-04 15:22 ` jan.de.kruyf [this message]
2015-05-27 13:41 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-25 23:05 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-26 8:01 ` Sylvain Laperche
2015-05-26 8:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-26 8:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-26 12:36 ` Simon Clubley
2015-05-26 13:39 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-26 14:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-26 16:19 ` Shark8
2015-05-26 20:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-26 17:11 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-28 23:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 21:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 22:32 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-26 8:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-28 22:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-28 23:18 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-29 21:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 7:55 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-29 9:27 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-29 10:23 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-29 12:01 ` G.B.
2015-05-29 13:43 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-29 15:32 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-29 15:57 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-29 9:31 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-05-29 10:37 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-29 10:56 ` Björn Lundin
2015-05-29 12:03 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-29 21:00 ` Shark8
2015-05-29 20:57 ` Shark8
2015-05-29 21:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-01 22:20 ` Shark8
2015-05-29 21:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 23:12 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-30 9:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-23 13:01 ` Luke A. Guest
2015-05-22 17:57 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-22 18:31 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-22 14:03 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-22 15:21 ` David Botton
2015-05-22 15:23 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-22 15:31 ` Bob Duff
2015-05-22 15:48 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-22 14:25 ` G.B.
2015-05-22 15:04 ` Bill White
2015-05-22 15:28 ` Bob Duff
2015-05-22 17:46 ` Simon Clubley
2015-05-22 18:16 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-22 19:01 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-22 19:41 ` jan.de.kruyf
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