http://www.21store.co.uk/pdantic/index.htm -- David Feustel 219-483-1857...
David Feustel
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Oct 4, 1998 2:28 am
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I am wondering if any of the members of this list who have had some exposure to SmallTalk could tell me their impression of it: What its good at, what its not...
Dennis Newbold
dennisn@...
Oct 5, 1998 3:16 pm
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If no one has objection, I will commence autoposting mail to this list to the new Usenix News category comp.lang.snobol on which there has been little if any ...
Edward Feustel
efeustel@...
Oct 5, 1998 3:56 pm
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autoposting mail from this list is a recipe for making the newsgroup useless I would think, unless people on the list generally switch into newsgroup mode,...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Oct 5, 1998 4:03 pm
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... [and instead get other sorts of much more interesting nonsense] ... Lou...
Lou Burnard
lou.burnard@...
Oct 5, 1998 4:11 pm
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<<[and instead get other sorts of much more interesting nonsense] ... Indeed, there are lots of off-SNOBOL posts, but there is a minimum of commercial spam,...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Oct 5, 1998 4:48 pm
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My goal is to make the SNOBOL information available on the list available to a wider community who probably do not suspect that the list exists. My crossposter...
Edward Feustel
efeustel@...
Oct 5, 1998 5:56 pm
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I've found "SPITBOL" in some dusty libraries on our MVS mainframe and drug it out to use with a major file analysis and conversion project. Does anyone know ...
Radford Walker
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Oct 5, 1998 6:03 pm
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... mail to this list to the new Usenix News category comp.lang.snobol on which there has been little if any traffic. I certainly don't object to that, as long...
gep2@...
Oct 5, 1998 6:24 pm
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... exposure to SmallTalk could tell me their impression of it: What its good at, what its not good at, how it compares to other languages in ease of ...
In article <199810051750.NAA28024@...>, Edward Feustel <efeustel@...> writes ... I am also uncomfortable with this idea. I was not aware of the ...
Jonathan Griffitts
jcg@...
Oct 5, 1998 6:44 pm
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Re: SPITBOL 370 From: Radford Walker <rwalker@...> ... out to use with a major file analysis and conversion project. Does anyone know where I can get...
GterHofstede@...
Oct 5, 1998 8:36 pm
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- Ed: First: _Thanks_ for presenting this to the group before "just doing it": Appreciated! ... Along with some of the others: I am also uncomfortable with...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Oct 5, 1998 9:09 pm
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Smalltalk, I took a couple of weeks of classes in it from ParcPlace a bunch of years ago. I found it very mind expanding. Like snobol it is a great language. ...
kgluck@...
Oct 5, 1998 9:16 pm
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- On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 kgluck@... wrote: ...snipped... ... - Yes! In NYC, there's an active NYPC Sig and many (financial sector) projects....
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Oct 5, 1998 10:12 pm
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<<I am also uncomfortable with this idea. I was not aware of the newsgroup but I will subscribe to it. However if you start crossposting this list I probably...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Oct 5, 1998 10:16 pm
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I just looked at comp.lang.snobol Of the 33 messages, virtually all are spam and forgeries, and cancelled messages (probably spam cancelled by cancelbots). ......
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Oct 5, 1998 10:16 pm
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<<Kurt: !Right on! Instead of Java, Sun _should_ have put its _commercial_ efforts into getting SELF out of their research labs... ... I disagree, the whole...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Oct 5, 1998 10:25 pm
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Mike said ... I am not sure quite why this issue is considered arguable and undecided when there is no such group, to me it means it is a completely dead issue...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Oct 5, 1998 10:27 pm
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Robert Dewar wrote: ...snipped... ... - ... - Robert: Oops! Let me be a bit more explicit, as I believe that you may be disagreeing with...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Oct 6, 1998 1:52 am
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<<Sun originally started on Java for a purpose which is quite far from it's current target of portable Internet applets. Their original target never ...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Oct 6, 1998 2:06 am
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Robert Dewar wrote: ...snipped... ... - Atavism from our teenage youth...: When I used to argue with my Dad, taking any and all sides of...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Oct 6, 1998 2:06 am
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... current target of portable Internet applets. I agree that Java is hardly revolutionary. In actuality, the "portable applets" thing could be just as easily...
gep2@...
Oct 6, 1998 5:43 am
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... I liked PL/I quite a bit, too. Actually, there were only two complaints I had about it. First, there often were too many ways to do the same thing, which ...
Calvin L. R. Barker
cbarker@...
Oct 6, 1998 8:06 pm
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... durable was more because the language was basically mainframe-only (and more to the point, basically IBM-only), and PL/1 appeared just about at the point...
gep2@...
Oct 6, 1998 8:30 pm
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<<Well, S*BOL is probably MY favorite general-purpose language. Yeah, I consider Pascal a "fad" language because it was so overwhelmingly trendy back some...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Oct 6, 1998 10:40 pm
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... back some 20-25 years ago (everyone talking about P-code for much the same cross-platform purposes as Java today) and then today you very rarely hear about...
gep2@...
Oct 6, 1998 11:08 pm
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I learned PL1 at RPI, and along with spitbol it was my favorate language. My masters project was a spibol program that implemented a tiny language that was...
kgluck@...
Oct 7, 1998 1:48 pm
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... That's about my situation too.... PL/1 and S*BOL were my first two languages (that plus 360 Assembler) and were (still are) my languages of choice for a...
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