... What I remember from VM/CMS using Spitbol 360/370 is that, in contrast to MVS where you had to submit jobs with JCL cards, you had to submit FILEDEF ...
Peter-Arno Coppen
P.A.Coppen@...
Jun 1, 1998 9:55 am
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... Dear reader, as another 'real life example' of using nreturn, I implement object property access in my 'object-oriented spitbol'. Consider the expression ...
Arjan Loeffen
Arjan.Loeffen@...
Jun 1, 1998 10:59 am
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... Mike, I liked the above quote. The question which comes to mind is, what is the obvious vs. the "non-obvious". To me it is starting to look as if nothing...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
Jun 1, 1998 11:32 am
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... Mike, I am not sure that $49.95 today for a book with a CD-ROM is more expensive than $6.95 in 1971. As far as I can tell rent since then may have gone up...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
Jun 1, 1998 11:37 am
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Regarding Mike's Email on the cost of the Green Book and current technology books, I tried to give a sense of the changes in salary and costs & said that I...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
Jun 1, 1998 5:01 pm
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Larry Pfeffer wrote: ...snipped... ... - Larry: Yep! However, I know a fellow, about 26 or 27, who just got a Ph.D. (MathStat in queuing &...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 1, 1998 6:35 pm
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Mike, ... What economic theory would explain the approx. 10x price increases in the last 30 yrs? Do you happen to know what the COL and S&P 500 changes are in ...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
Jun 1, 1998 9:05 pm
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... yrs, in spite of the following factors: a) loss of USA monopoly due to Japanese and Korean brands, b) significant automation in design and manufacturing,...
gep2@...
Jun 1, 1998 10:18 pm
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- ... - - On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Peter-Arno Coppen wrote: ...snipped... - ... - Thanks, Peter-Arno! This _and_ Phil's posting, below, jogged my memory: On Sat, 30...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 1, 1998 10:19 pm
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I did some updates to the VM/CMS SPITBOL a while back for running under more current levels of CMS (yes... CMS is still alive and well). I had sent my updates...
cwills@...
Jun 1, 1998 11:32 pm
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Here are two EXECs, the first is about the minimum FILEDEFs that you needed to run a spitbol program, the second is abit more extensive in that it sets up some...
cwills@...
Jun 2, 1998 1:35 am
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Well, geez... Just when I think this list has gone stale someone asks a (seemingly) trivial question and the responses range from Detroit to JCL tricks......
Gregg Ney
renais-ney.evanston@...
Jun 2, 1998 1:57 am
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- On Mon, 1 Jun 1998 gep2@... wrote: ...snipped... ... - Gordon: Good point. Further... Snobol4 is not AT&T biggest blink, by a longshot. We've all...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 2, 1998 2:05 am
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- On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Larry Pfeffer wrote: ...snipped... ... - I don't know. However... I fear that you & I are about to annoy the "off-topic" police... ... ...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 2, 1998 2:05 am
37
This list seems to be wandering far away from the subject of SNOBOL-4. I have no 0objection to general discussion lists, and if that is what people want fine,...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Jun 2, 1998 2:09 am
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- On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Robert Dewar wrote: ...snipped... ... - Yes: I'm still wondering if Cheyenne, BobG, or anyone else can help with Peter-Arno's interesting...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 2, 1998 2:31 am
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There should not be any problem executing a FILEDEF from within a a SPITBOL program. The tricky part will be coming up with the proper LOAD routine to execute...
cwills@...
Jun 2, 1998 3:32 am
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... last 30 yrs? I think if you look at the inflation rate for the last 30 years, 10x is about the devaluation in our currency. BTW, us medievalists have...
Gregg Ney
renais-ney.evanston@...
Jun 2, 1998 4:35 am
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... quality nor invention. At the moment, due to the USA's overly-active economy, there is _far_ too much VC-sourced money chasing an insufficient number of...
gep2@...
Jun 2, 1998 9:11 am
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... I *used* that product and excellent is not the word I would use to describe it. ... As a long-time user of OS/2, my opinion is that the product was...
David Feustel
feustel@...
Jun 2, 1998 12:11 pm
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OK. Where can I find a BNF description of Snobol4? (Preferably on line). Thanks. ... -- David Feustel 219-483-1857...
David Feustel
feustel@...
Jun 2, 1998 12:11 pm
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- On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, David Feustel wrote: ...snipped... ... - I think that in the back of the Green Book there's an example of a full top-down parser for S4. ...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 2, 1998 9:20 pm
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I went poking around in the SPITBOL stuff that I have and lo and behold there was a CALLCMS facility already there (as well as a CALLCP). Anyway the code looks...
cwills@...
Jun 2, 1998 11:32 pm
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Cheyenne, thanks for your subsequent post that answered this question. I can't help on CMS questions. [Try me on MVS (maybe), but don't send me any dumps! :) ]...
Bob Goldberg
goldberg@...
Jun 3, 1998 12:01 am
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Mike said <<Unfortunately, even full BNF is hardly a complete semantic description. ... IN fact the BNF is simply a description of the syntax, not of the...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Jun 3, 1998 4:24 am
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David Feustel wrote: ... Very much so ! What do you have ? -- John H. Lindsay lindsay_j@... Department of Mathematics and...
John Lindsay
lindsay-j@...
Jun 3, 1998 3:37 pm
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VisualAge C++ APL2 for OS/2 Lots of OS/2 books miscellaneous other os/2 software All versions of OS/2 that come on cdrom ... -- David Feustel 219-483-1857...
David Feustel
feustel@...
Jun 3, 1998 5:01 pm
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- ... - Syntax: It's likely the entire BNF-equivalent for S4 could be written as one monster pattern. - Of course, we'd never actually do such a thing. ;-) ...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 3, 1998 6:09 pm
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Mike> It's likely the entire BNF-equivalent for S4 could be written as Mike> one monster pattern. Mike> - Mike> Of course, we'd never...
Andrew Koenig
ark@...
Jun 3, 1998 6:24 pm
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Dear David, Thanks for the update; I've just replied about OS/2 v. 4.0. ... I have v. 3.08; I think that's the latest. ... Oh ho ! What version ? What...
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