Re: new programming language idea

From: >parr\(*> (gniKyruaL_at_tenretnitb.moc)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 05:05:35 +0000 (UTC)

"Acid Pooh" <poohonlsd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| ">parr\(*>" <gniKyruaL@tenretnitb.moc> wrote in message
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| > "|-|erc" <gotch@beauty.com> wrote in message
| > news:ZPoPc.28831$K53.755@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
| > | all functions have the following format.
| > |
| > |
| > | function fname (param list)
| > | while true
| > | ...
| > | ...
| > | wend
| > | end //function
| > |
| > |
| > | and flow control is achieve without loops, since the while ...
wend
| > would
| > | be invisible, by using a break command.
| > |
| > So each function is an independently scheduled process? I wrote
a
| > compiler for a language like that a few decades ago. Useful for
| > continuous systems simulation and for control systems.
|
| I've always been impressed by people writing compilers. What
language
| did you write it in? I would imagine a combination of C and asm,
but
| then again, I suppose it's possible to write one in any language,
at
| least in theory.

Assembler ('PLAN' on UK machine ICL 1900) many many years ago. The
language being compiled was fortran-like and allowed fortran
inclusions with the output being in fortran. The analysis of fortran
was the hard part. There was another hard part, the integration
calculations, but that was done by someone else. I just remembered
another hard part. Travelling 10 miles to 'The Computer' each day
looking at the results of the run submitted the day before, and
seeing it had a stupid compilation error.

Yes, you can write in any language provided it has good string
handling capabilities. We had thought at one time to use fortran,
but it was terrible at handling strings. 

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