16 Aug
2005
16 Aug
'05
6:34 a.m.
>>>> "Huw" == Huw Davies
<huw.davies at kerberos.davies.net.au> writes:
Huw> On 16/08/2005, at 3:07 AM, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Things like i + 1 =: i or i + 1 -> i make much
more sense. This
> typical high level language format makes reading code
> confusing. Sometimes one reads left to right for operations while
> others, one has to look to the right to find the sequence and then
> look to the left to complete.
Huw> I've always wondered why the form i + 1 -> i never took off. I
Huw> recall at least one programming language I looked at (can't
Huw> remember the name right now ...
POP-2. Everything is left-associative. And then of course there is
APL, where everything is right-associative.
Huw> I don't like c very much but I do appreciate that it's really a
Huw> high- level assembler ...
As is Bliss, of course. If you want a high level language, use
Pascal. If you want one suitable for system programming, there's
Modula-2 (which was used by DEC for that purpose). Or Algol variants
(such as Espol, used in the Burroughs mainframe OS).
paul