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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,817f641aa902b0b0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!out02a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!nlpi057.nbdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!flpi088.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.com!flpi107.ffdc.sbc.com!nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com.POSTED!cfe18fef!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Organization: Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: YAPL - Yet Another Programming Language References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.94.45.251 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com 1214768199 ST000 68.94.45.251 (Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:36:39 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:36:39 EDT X-UserInfo1: S[O]R^OGLBUUSWTXZBND]_\@VR]^@B@MCPWZKB]MPXH@ETUCCNSKQFCY@TXDX_WHSVB]ZEJLSNY\^J[CUVSA_QLFC^RQHUPH[P[NRWCCMLSNPOD_ESALHUK@TDFUZHBLJ\XGKL^NXA\EVHSP[D_C^B_^JCX^W]CHBAX]POG@SSAZQ\LE[DCNMUPG_VSC@VJM Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:36:27 -0500 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:953 Date: 2008-06-29T14:36:27-05:00 List-Id: Adem24 wrote: > The World Joint Programming Language Standardization Committe (WJPLSC) > hereby proclaims to the people of the world that a new programming language > is needed for the benefit of the whole mankind in the 21st millenium. > This new language not only differs from existing ones by new features > and paradigms but which also brings real advantage by rigourously > preventing bad programmer habits by omitting features which are outdated. > In the proposed new joint language for the world (codename YAPL) > several concepts in use by currently used bad languages have been eliminated. > All UN member countries and organizations are urged to adapt these > recommendations which are for the benefit and safety of the planet and the mankind: > > 1) There is no goto statement. > Hidden goto's like break- and continue-statements are also omitted. > > 2) There is no return statement. > Instead a result variable can be declared to which the result of a function can be assigned. > > 3) There are no automatic type conversions. > When a subprogram should be used for different types it must be overloaded. > > 4) There are no variable length parameter lists. > Instead it is possible to use arrays as parameters. > > 5) There are no default parameters. > But it is easy to define two subprograms: One with and one without an additional parameter. > > 6) There is no special "parameter" called "self" or "this". > In a procedure the receiving object is declared as formal parameter with a user-defined name. > > 7) There is no macro feature since this mechanism is too similar to the subprogram feature. > Instead subprograms can be used in a more flexible way than in other languages. > > 8) There are no reserved words. > > 9) There is no conceptual distinction between functions, operators, procedures and statements. > > 10) The procedure calling mechanism is not based on a concept with an object-message pair > (An object receives a message). Instead a match is done over a list of objects. > This more general (and powerful) mechanism is called multimatch and it includes > the simple object-message mechanism as special case. Hmmmm. > > > cu l8er > Jesus DeCoder > > > > . > -- Gary Scott mailto:garylscott@sbcglobal dot net Fortran Library: http://www.fortranlib.com Support the Original G95 Project: http://www.g95.org -OR- Support the GNU GFortran Project: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/index.html If you want to do the impossible, don't hire an expert because he knows it can't be done. -- Henry Ford