From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,f7a7163813ae8672 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,f7a7163813ae8672 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,f7a7163813ae8672 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f645d,f7a7163813ae8672 X-Google-Attributes: gidf645d,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f7a7163813ae8672 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,f7a7163813ae8672 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,f7a7163813ae8672 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-01 21:03:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: logan@cs.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw) Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Re: Bizarre languages ( was Re: Best language for low IQ programmers? ) Date: 1 Dec 2001 23:02:57 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Sender: logan@starbuck.cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9uccm1$g33$1@starbuck.cs.utexas.edu> References: <1004990076967295@aol.com> <3C047697.28D5059C@nyc.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbuck.cs.utexas.edu X-Trace: news.cs.utexas.edu 1007269378 625 128.83.144.182 (2 Dec 2001 05:02:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@cs.utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 05:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.basic.visual:11450 comp.lang.c++:107772 comp.lang.java.programmer:114395 comp.object:26626 comp.lang.eiffel:5066 comp.lang.ada:17293 comp.lang.perl.misc:80963 Date: 2001-12-01T23:02:57-06:00 List-Id: In article , Mark Lundquist wrote: >My language will unify these two great concepts, the object and the >exception, into a single construct called an "objection". Doh! You stole my joke! Not that you had any way of knowing. Of course, the way that you'd throw an objection is to use the "object" keyword. >All program logic will be encapsulated in objection handlers. Objections >can be either "sustained" or "overruled". The entry point for all programs >is the raising of an objection. Now this I didn't think of. >The new language will facilitate a new programming paradigm, which I call >"programming by objection". Are you sure you don't want to call it Pure Dysfunctional Programming? - Logan -- "In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives." Georges Bernanos