I've downloaded this new distribution and have been playing
around for about a day (much to the dismay of my growing
backlog of work tasks). It's very exciting; the wrappers around
the speech stuff on OS X are a nice touch.
I'd like to have as few copies of the base Inferno install lying
around as
IIRC, unpacking just /dis/o should be enough.
There's a separate osrc.tgz at the same web page
where you took the distrib.
You could perhaps try to unpack that, or just copy it
from the one you got.
Also, there might be necessary to create some directory
in case a mount point is missing. If that'
> one does
>
> if key = 'c' then
> scanline
> runcommand
> else
> generate(key)
> assemble(key)
>
> This is similar to Python, and prevents the nesting ambiguity of C,
> Pascal, and some
Hello. I started working on Bentley, a new programming language. This
was inspired by and is based on the pseudocode in Jon Bentley's
"Programming Pearls" - a column for the CACM that became a book. The
compiler generates Assembly in a temporary file, then calls up the
assembler to make the
(By 'indentation' of course I mean 'indentation to define structure')
-rob
Indentation by white space is a very bad idea in my experience.
Superficially attractive but ultimately very dangerous. I once spent a
couple of days tracking down a bug caused by a source-to-source code
tool that broke a major program because the code it was injecting into
had indented one more sp
> Put it this way: It's unwise to make program structure depend on
> invisible characters.
a white space is something hard to find, some time ago I helped a friend
who couldn't get a mkfile working, he got something like:
"mk: mkfile:6: syntax error; expected one of :<="
all due to a ' ' in what w
On May 1, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
Indentation by white space is a very bad idea in my experience.
Superficially attractive but ultimately very dangerous. I once spent a
couple of days tracking down a bug caused by a source-to-source code
tool that broke a major program because the cod
On May 1, 2008, at 9:12 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote:
Put it this way: It's unwise to make program structure depend on
invisible characters.
a white space is something hard to find, some time ago I helped a
friend
who couldn't get a mkfile working, he got something like:
"mk: mkfile:6: s
On May 1, 2008, at 9:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
one does
if key = 'c' then
scanline
runcommand
else
generate(key)
assemble(key)
This is similar to Python, and prevents the
On May 1, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
On May 1, 2008, at 9:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
one does
if key = 'c' then
scanline
runcommand
else
generate(key)
ass
Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
Put it this way: It's unwise to make program structure depend on
invisible characters.
There's a language made entirely of said invisible characters, called
Whitespace. It's esoteric, but it works. And Python, which has the same
style, is a phenomenal success. Whether
you can do what you will, with your indentation-based language, but
that won't change the fact that indentation for lexical scope is a
horrible idea.
I first saw it in a language in 1978 called Offal, by Aron Insinga.
Aron was smart: after 6 weeks, he said, "this sucks", and put it away.
When I sa
Rob Pike wrote:
> I have lots of other examples of lesser disasters. As code grows,
> white space indentation becomes ever more problematic. It's a
> maintenance disaster.
I beg to differ, at least when it comes to my experience working w/
Python. I work day in and day out on a 50,000+ line P
> I first saw it in a language in 1978 called Offal, by Aron Insinga.
Well with a name like Offal at least he wasn't setting expectations too high...
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:41 PM, John Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I first saw it in a language in 1978 called Offal, by Aron Insinga.
>
> Well with a name like Offal at least he wasn't setting expectations too
> high...
>
>
Just about as high as Python went, it turns out :-)
ron
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:54 PM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:41 PM, John Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I first saw it in a language in 1978 called Offal, by Aron Insinga.
> >
> > Well with a name like Offal at least he wasn't setting expectations
Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> The compiler generates Assembly in a temporary file,
> then calls up the assembler to make the program.
That sounds somewhat similar to Dan Bernstein's qhasm
(http://cr.yp.to/qhasm.html) which is a semi-portable assembly
language combining C-like syntax w/ direct access
> Indentation by white space is a very bad idea in my experience.
it could just be possible that you're using an editor that is not
aware of the particular indentation requirements of said language, no?
does it, at least, implement color coding?
:D
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