http://pypi.python.org/pypi/spipat/0.9.3 It builds and runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. I haven't tried it on Windows. The C library has never been...
... I managed to make a binary distribution of spipat for Windows using MINGW (a port of GCC to bare Win32), and Python 2.6 from python.org: The Python...
... [example code snipped] Wow, great work, Phil. I'm not the greatest Python fan (I must admit I liked the Monty Pythons Show ;-) ) -- using it only when I...
This truly IS good news... while I'm somewhat saddened to see Mark (who has been such a HUGE savior of both the SNOBOL and SPITBOL languages) turn them over to...
Robert, Mark, Phil et al: That's absolutely great news. Thank you all. Mark, does that include any (or, hopefully, all ?) of the platform specific stuff for...
Now I have not read the code yet. But I know what to expect to a degree. And I think that this is really great stuff with lotsa possibles. However! I would...
If I was not currently busy fixing peoples horrid computer problems, and selling them their consumer (computer) products, in order to finance the writing of...
Its good to see the green book there. I have a hard copy, but a lot will not going into the future. Spitbol-3.7,,,,,,My compliments to Robert and all others...
Actually, the package looks complete. Unfortunately, for SPARC only. The code generator itself is in SNOBOL, but it would be helpful to have the 386 version as...
Yes, this is good stuff. It will be interesting to see who does something with it. Who just wants to pick it over and be seen to be an expert on it. Who...
Greg, Robert's methodology for writing code, on which mine is patterned since I learned it from him, is to write the comments first, then write the code....
Thanks John, Roberts methodology is good. Better than mine. First I have firm vision. Then I write the code with pencil and paper. Then I type the code....
Oh, I disagree. I have major backend programs for my clients' systems already written in Macro SPITBOL. Why on earth would I want to use Python instead? Even...
Gordon, YES. And assembler is small and fast. The concept of an assembler VM (Minimal like) is a good one, in my opinion. But I guess, that the platform...
The efficiency advantages of assembler-like coding are several, including: 1) direct use of native data types 2) direct access to hardware addressing modes ...
Gordon Wrote: The other point, of course is that current hardware performance has at least diminished the criticality of trying to maximize the last tiny...
I have to travel 6 hours to Melbourne tomorrow, for a check up at the Peter McCallum cancer institute. They have learnt that I am more precise than their scan...
AWK/SED (and Perl) are on every Unix box. C-SNOBOL is only there if I put it there AND its allowed by the client. Python is an easier sell, and is a better...
SNOBOL has it's charm? Perhaps. But it also has the best pattern matching facility ever. It depends on what you want to do. Jim ... From: "Fred Weigel"...
... There is no argument that they are trendy and popular. That doesn't make them the best solution. ... Sure. ... Depends, I suppose, upon your definition of...
IMHO the ONLY language which seriously competes with S'BOL for textual pattern matching is Icon, and although Icon has features that S'BOL lacks, the inverse ...
I agree completely. Icon is fun, but sometimes it would be good to have the power of S'BOL. But language design is never perfect. I was peripherally involved...
Fred, It seems to me that you are deliberately trying to cause flame on the Snobol list. Any program language has its points. But basicallly it all comes down...
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