1) is there code available to handle extend precision match in SNOBOL4? 2) how do you use SORT and RSORT in SNOBOL4....
Logan C. Kinnison
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Aug 2, 1998 5:48 am
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... I have no idea what you are talking about here. Please elaborate. ... SORT and RSORT are in SNOBOL4+ and SPITBOL. -- ... Mark B. Emmer Voice:...
Mark Emmer
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Aug 3, 1998 1:20 am
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... Sorry, should have said extend 'math'. I know there was mention of multi-byte routines a couple of months ago and I was wondering if any one had coded some...
Logan C. Kinnison
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Aug 3, 1998 3:00 am
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Here is the description of SORT/RSORT I put together for my SNOBOL4 in C "man page". It's less incoherent than it used to be! SORT()/RSORT() The SORT() and...
Phil Budne
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Aug 3, 1998 4:41 am
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Are there any implementations of SNOBOL4 with Blocks, other than the original IBM370 version? James W. McKelvey mckelvey@......
Jim McKelvey
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Aug 3, 1998 3:30 pm
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- ... - Jim: Hi! The operative word here is `are' (I.e., "`Were' there any...") ... now-long-deceased PDP-11 and the now-very-long-deceased DEC-10, amongst ...
Mike Radow
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Aug 3, 1998 6:07 pm
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... Thanx, Mike. I've got an old 9-track tape with the S4B source on it that I got from Bell Labs circa 1970. Assuming that it's still readable after almost...
Jim McKelvey
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Aug 3, 1998 6:27 pm
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- - 1. Readers of this list who analyze historical texts may find {#1.} of interest. 2. A second URL {#2.}, a footnote to the parent document, points to an ...
Mike Radow
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Aug 3, 1998 9:03 pm
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I think that being overly concerned about the extra GOTO around the code making up a function is pretty silly. Agreed that one wouldn't want to put this...
gep2@...
Aug 4, 1998 2:08 am
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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 13:05:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Radow <mradow@...> Subject: Re: Blocks? Even if the SIL for S4B were available, it would be hard...
Phil Budne
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Aug 4, 1998 5:33 am
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Can the memory overhead of jumping around the body of the function be a serious issue with modern computers? All of my spitbol code has always used the...
kgluck@...
Aug 4, 1998 12:55 pm
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- Using the "Grandmother Test" <x>, I certainly agree with Gordon and Kurt: On Mon, 3 Aug 1998 gep2@... wrote: ...snipped... - ... ..and... On Tue, 4...
Mike Radow
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Aug 4, 1998 8:44 pm
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<<> I think that being overly concerned about the extra GOTO around the code ... .and... On Tue, 4 Aug 1998 kgluck@... wrote: ...snipped... -...
Robert Dewar
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Aug 4, 1998 11:24 pm
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... to put the DEFINE() first, if only to give them a hint. I think you misread the issue. The issue is, given a routine like SQRT, if you want to have...
gep2@...
Aug 5, 1998 5:39 am
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Dear Gordon, it may be sily - but: 1 t works 2 without the global hop-around, there was a limit (at least to my compiler), which would cras the program...
Burkhard Meissner
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Aug 5, 1998 11:19 am
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Ive been misunderstood in a minor point. I agree with everything else said about the Grandmothers test though (born in the bronx raised in FarRockaway :-) ) I...
kgluck@...
Aug 5, 1998 1:47 pm
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Gordon, Two points regarding your comments on Microsoft's "Hungarian notation". a) in S*BOL (or Java, awk, Visual Basic) I never used a cross referencer ... b)...
Larry Pfeffer
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Aug 5, 1998 8:49 pm
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- On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Robert Dewar wrote: ...snipped... ... - And it's easily done with a SPITBOL program which reads the source: The labels are simply...
Mike Radow
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Aug 5, 1998 9:08 pm
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- Burkhard: Hi! An explanation from the "source". ;-) _Thanks_ for ending my / our guessing, since it _is_ your W3-document: On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Burkhard...
Mike Radow
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Aug 5, 1998 9:53 pm
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- On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Pfeffer Larry wrote: ...snipped... ... - ... - Larry: I strongly doubt one can be an "ex-Hungarian". A former resident: Sure! "Ex":...
Mike Radow
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Aug 6, 1998 12:34 am
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... In part that's probably because the programs in those languages tend to be fairly short anyhow. On longer programs, and those having a large number of ...
gep2@...
Aug 6, 1998 6:27 am
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... Mike: to each his own ... I stand by the "ex-Hungarian" term. Of course living in a country, especially one someone was born in, leave indelible marks. In...
Larry Pfeffer
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Aug 6, 1998 6:52 am
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Gordon, ... You are certainly right about awk and S*BOL (and probably also PERL). On the other hand VB programs/systems can be quite large, and certainly...
Larry Pfeffer
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Aug 6, 1998 7:08 am
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<<Actually, along a similar vein, I was thinking the other day that a clever computer company could use parity SIMMs (typically which have one parity bit per ...
Robert Dewar
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Aug 6, 1998 11:14 am
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I knew well about concatenating the labels, separated by semicola and CODE() the whole lot ( CODE('label1;label2;label3') ). The problem with one of my...
Burkhard Meissner
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Aug 6, 1998 11:33 am
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I no longer even consider computers using anything less than ECC memory. ... -- David Feustel 219-483-1857...
David Feustel
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Aug 6, 1998 12:02 pm
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<<I no longer even consider computers using anything less than ECC memory. ... Actually that's probably somewhat in the FUD realm, unless you are doing safety...
Robert Dewar
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Aug 6, 1998 12:13 pm
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... bit per ... Its a much older idea - the Rice University R1 was built in period 1959-61. Its tagged architecture ("codewords") was a landmark design - and...
Larry Pfeffer
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Aug 6, 1998 2:16 pm
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I had severe problems (after a year of flawless operation) with memory in an IBM Aptiva which was eventually replaced by Tandy (the problems got worse after...
David Feustel
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Aug 6, 1998 2:17 pm
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I wrote a Trac-like macro processor for a computer - the Telefunken TR-440 - with a tagged computer architecture while I was working in Germany in the early...