14 Jan
1999
14 Jan
'99
6:08 p.m.
On or about 03:59 PM 1/14/99 -0600, Uncle Roger was caught in a dark alley
speaking these words:
For-Next is interpreted when executed. It is at that
point that the
relevant machine language instructions are generated and executed. Machine
language is low-level, C is slightly higher, BASIC is definitely
high-level
And Perl is some of most of these - at times faster than C, yet sometimes
simpler than Basic, almost as powerful as APL, and runs on more machines
than Java! (of course, APL runs on more machines than Java...)
things like Powerhouse and other 4GL's are even
higher levels
of extraction.
Speaking of 4GL's, there was a 4GL available for the CoCo under OS-9 called
Sculptor from FHL (Frank Hogg Laboratories), IIRC. Anyone here have a copy
of it for sale? I've always wanted to play with it.
See ya,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- zmerch(a)30below.com
SysAdmin - Iceberg Computers
===== Merch's Wild Wisdom of the Moment: =====
for (1..15) { print "Merry Christmas\n"; }
(from perl.1 man page, version 4.)