Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
Martin Peach wrote:
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Martin Peach wrote:
The shell's [] (/usr/bin/test) also has -gt,-lt,-ge,-le,-eq,-ne,
which it uses for numeric comparisons, whereas it uses
>,<,>=,<=,==,!= for string comparisons. It also needs both by design.
[snip]
Oh I see. But that notation is only standard in shell languages
also at least one assembly language:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/68000_Assembly#Conditional_tests
While it's true 68000 was one of the easiest to learn, assembly language
is notoriously obscure. (like anl, orl, jc from 8051) And proprietary
concerns meant that every processor had a different mnemonic set, so
standardization was out the window from the beginning.
Pd is a higher level language that trades off efficiency for a more
human interface. Naming things for ease of typing is not usually
consistent with naming things according to what they do.
Martin
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