On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Samuel Falvo wrote: [...] ... A notation is concatenative if the concatention of programs denotes the composition of the functions which...
... And very nice it is. Can/Should I now plant a link to this on the Joy page? Also, if there are any new primtives that would help this project, please let...
... Feel free. You can grab the library itself from: http://www.system-7.freeserve.co.uk/joy/hlplib/hlplib.joy ... I would like to be able to access the symbol...
Hello, the subject says most of it. I can't reach the Joy homepage, have the latrobe servers been rearranged? Also, is there a BNF grammar for Joy available? ...
... Nothing has moved. But our system administrators are doing something big and weird which I don't understand. I'm told "it won't take long". ... Yes. It is...
... As I mentioned in one of my previous posts I'd prefer to have the PUBLIC definitions at the top of a file. Could you perhaps make the order of 'PRIVATE...
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, falvosa <kc5tja@...> wrote: [.. apropos writing a Joy in Oberon ..] ... Coming from Wirth, it just has to be a very clean language....
... [..stuff about syntax of MODULEs with PRIVATE and PUBLIC parts..] ... ^^^^ I had not planned to make a strong connection between modules and files (in the...
... I haven't. Personally, I can't stand Pascal as a language. I can't put my finger on it, but it seems very limiting to me. I've never had any experience ...
... See Brian Kernighan's "Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language" at http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html among other places. -- John...
... I have, but his views are not only orthogonal to mine, but even somewhat offensive, because he leaves it at that. He never considers Modula-2 nor Oberon...
... Note the date. Kernighan's review was written in 1981, at which time Modula-2 was one year old and Oberon did not exist. ... Check out strongForth at...
From: Samuel Falvo <falvosa@...> ... It's worth noting that a nice subset of Oberon is distributed with the parser generator "Gray" (or was that "Grey",...
... Exactly my point. He has failed to revisit his position with respect to this, which leaves a nasty aftertaste in my mouth. Most authors who publish such ...
... Thank goodness many of the criticisms levelled against Pascal don't apply to successors like Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, and Component Pascal. ...
... In fact, his involvement apparently is limited to writing that paper, and the Pascal influence is limited to ":=" for assignment and the syntax of ...
... I wasn't aware of this! I will have to check this out. -- Samuel A. Falvo II __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web...
... Oh man ... oh man ... I don't know what to make of this language. It apparently combines the worst syntactical elements of C and the worst syntactical...
... When I started teaching myself programming, we had a DEC10 and as languages we had Fortran, Cobol, Basic, Focal, Algol60, Snobol, Lisp, Bliss and an early...
... It's always been a source of irritation to me that the grammar is (mostly) trivial but the lexer isn't. That is partly due to the strange nature of the...
... I am not certain that Oberon forbids passing local procedures as parameters. If it's used purely within the scope of its containing procedure, it should be...
... In Pascal, I suppose you mean. Of course the entire Lisp (and especially Scheme) community practices this art with abandon, and doesn't consider it black....
... I think, though, that that is not ANS FORTH compliant; no non-primitive word can have a net effect on the return stack. In particular, I am certain that...
... While this may be true, it's generally not advocated in Lisp programming. Lisp programmers generally tend to stick with more traditional, functional ...
... Without giving you exceedingly uninteresting details, my feelings towards ANSI Forth are not favorable. ANSI Forth made a lot of decisions that lean...
... primitive ... I am ... towards ANSI ... lean towards ... take advantage ... nebulous ... supposedly the ... ample proof. C isn't the most portable of...
... I used C because it's considered to be a "portable" language by academia and industry alike. ... Historical evidence seems to suggest otherwise. As I...
... so ... academia and ... portability is ... understand the ... because the ... AT&T. "Look, we can ... throughout the ... programmers grew up ... systems ...
