Re: New symbolic/numeric/dynamic/intuitive programming language

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:31:06 -0600, Mark Nudelman wrote:
Aatu Koskensilta wrote:

On 2008-02-21, in sci.math, Mark Nudelman wrote:
Writing a non-trivial program requires skills that are mostly
independent of the language.

Indeed, and such newfangled inventions as the ability to define
functions and procedure of your own and to otherwise structure your
code, apparently missing in Flaming Thunder, are considered to be of
some use by some. Probably elitists, the whole lot of them, unable to
appreciate the beauty and elegance of

Set result to 1.
For year from 2000 to 2008 do
set result to result*year.
Write result.

or encoding the logic of your program in a bunch of imaginatively
placed GOTOs, while, for and until loops and other such bundles of
joy.

This seems like an instance of the COBOL school of language design, the
philosophy being that the closer a program looks to ordinary English,
the better it is.

It's a candygrammar.

<http://jargon.net/jargonfile/c/candygrammar.html>



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