In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > > Typing was never the limiting factor in programming, > > Surely you're joking.
No. Note that I mean notations that are mostly shorthand, not removal of primal language constructs. > Do you really claim that there has ever been any > excuse for this sort of terseness, except for minimising keyboard work? > A0: R := INSYMBOL; > A1: IF F[S[I]] > G[R] THEN GO TO A2; > IF R = MARK THEN GO TO A9; > I := J := I+1; S[I] := R; MOVE(NAME, V[I]); GO TO A0; > A2: IF F[S[J-1]] = G[S[J]] THEN BEGIN J := J-1; GO TO A2 END; > M := MTB[S[J]]; > A3: IF PRTB[M] = 0 THEN BEGIN ERROR(5); GO TO EXIT END; > N := J; > > And that's Wirth's code, by the way. I'm not sure how this illustrates anything relating to shorthand language constructs. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
