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Subject: Re: defining a new i-f programming language
From: argus@see.the.sig (T Raymond)
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Gary Shannon was overheard typing about:

>
> "M Joonas Pihlaja" <jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
> news:Pine.OSF.4.30.0202090136330.2688-100000@vesuri.Helsinki.FI...
>>
>> On 6 Feb 2002, Sabrejack wrote:
>>
>> > It would have perfect C-style syntax -- All lines would be
>> > deliniated by a semicolon, never a newline or other
>> > whitespace.  newlines and other white space inside strings
>> > would not be ignored, they would be treated C style.
>> > Special chars, such as quotes, would be created using escaped
>> > sequences like \", not ~ .. \n would work for a newline if
>> > you wanted, not ^.  ALL code blocks would be enclosed in { }
>> > braces, none in [ ] brackets.
>>
>> If I had the chance, I'd go as far away from perfect C syntax as
>> possible -- The only separator between words is white space, a
>> function name can consist of any graphical characters, there are
>> no ugly { nested } blocks, and *definitely* no parenthesis to
>> group expressions.  Oh, and it's got to be interactive. The
>> edit-compile-link thing is just *so* last week!
>>
>> Oh, wait.  There already is such a thing:
>>
>>   http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~jpihlaja/glasforth/
>>
>
> Just the fact that the name has "forth" in it got my attention.
> However, being a Windoze junky there's nothing I can do with a
> tar ball except use it as a messy paper weight.  Any chance the
> files could be made available in a Windoze-friendly format?

Any good windoze archiver should handle it, even winzip, though I
prefer PowerArchiver or Freezip.

Tom
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