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From: "John Colagioia" <JColagioia@csi.com>
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Subject: Re: what's wrong with some existing IF languages
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:25:58 -0400
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lraszewski@loyola.edu (L. Ross Raszewski) wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:09:19 -0400, John Colagioia <JColagioia@csi.com> wrote:
>>I might argue (from what little I know of the language) that it might
>>actually be easier to move sufficiently Inform-ish Inform code to ML
>>than it would to C, though, again, that's only a gut feeling.
>I've programmed a fair bit of inform and ML (and C, for that matter),
>and I think the only way for this claim to be justified is if you mean
>"If you took the inform code, you wouldn't even try to translated it
>into ML; you'd just start over again"

Fair enough.  What (very) little I had seen of ML looked
somewhat similar to some "advanced" work I had been doing
in Inform at the time.  I never did any further analysis,
so the fact that I'm wrong doesn't bother me too much.

I contend, however, that there are closer (non-Algoloid)
matches for Inform (particularly, the juggling of
routines, things like objectloop, and so on).
