From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized
Date: 2000/01/06
Date: 2000-01-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc7lhmizbc.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 852ehv$53$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> If you want to take the hit for 100% portability, then do it
> properly, and produce a proper high level language (something
> with the flavors of SNOBOL4, SETL, APL, PROLOG, ABC, Python).
Some of the above languages you mention are very special purpose, so
they don't count, in my mind, when discussing the design of general
purpose languages. I don't think SNOBOL should be a "language"; it
should be a set of library routines inside a general-purpose language.
In fact that's exactly what you've done with GNAT. And I'd rather use
those GNAT libraries than use the real SNOBOL4. Important things like
reasonable control structures are missing from SNOBOL4. Similarly,
PROLOG is often embedded in Lisp, is it not?
- Bob
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-09 0:00 The revolution will not be standardized Ted Dennison
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-13 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-12-23 0:00 ` gnat 3.12 Michael Ben-Gershon
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-15 0:00 ` The revolution will not be standardized Ted Dennison
1999-12-14 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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