Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-02-02 Thread Guido Milanese
May I take the liberty to inform also on the existence of other free languages, although absolutely not fashionable nowadays? I suggest SNOBOL and ICON. They were both originally designed by Dr Ralph E. Griswold (Arizona). I still prefer the former, but Icon is very much preferable to those

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-31 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Laurent Duperval am Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:51:45PM -0500: Tcl. It's under the BSD license meaning you can do pretty much what you want Okay, so it is even more liberal. with it. Perl is under the Artistic license.

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-30 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 29 Jan, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach SJN am Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:21:49AM +0800: GPL is good. In fact, I wish to know the programming language that fall under it like gcc et cetera. Hmmm, which of the programming languages comming with Mandrake do *NOT* fall under the GPL? Is

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Ron Stodden am Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 05:58:39AM +1100: Errr... There is an fps RPM in cooker, but not in the 7.2 Whoops, did not check that :] Sorry! Still it is nice to know what's coming, thanks! (Like you don't know already :]) Alexander Skwar -- How to quote:

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Laurent Duperval am Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:51:45PM -0500: Tcl. It's under the BSD license meaning you can do pretty much what you want Okay, so it is even more liberal. with it. Perl is under the Artistic license. Perl is under both AFAIK. Lemme rephrase my question: Are there

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-29 Thread Jaime Perea
Well, we have ALMOST all the Free(not free) stuff off the first two disks of our distro. If you run an expert install, you should find a host of languages, including, but not limited to: Python Perl Tcl/Tk Ruby Mercury OCAML Haskell Scheme Guile Lisp Fortran77 (via a translator

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach SJN am Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:21:49AM +0800: GPL is good. In fact, I wish to know the programming language that fall under it like gcc et cetera. Hmmm, which of the programming languages comming with Mandrake do *NOT* fall under the GPL? Is there one? Alexander Skwar -- How to

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach civileme am Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:06:52PM +0100: Pascal(via a translator to c called p2c) What about fpc? It's also in the distribution. fpc stands for "Free Pascal Compiler" and is just that :] It also tries to be as Delphi compatible as possible. So for pascal users, this might

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Alexander Skwar wrote: What about fpc? It's also in the distribution. fpc stands for "Free Pascal Compiler" and is just that :] It also tries to be as Delphi compatible as possible. So for pascal users, this might be the first choice. Errr... There is an fps RPM in cooker, but not in the

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-26 Thread civileme
On Friday 26 January 2001 08:16, you wrote: Hi Linuxians, I need a list of free programming language and scripting language available for Linux. Free as in for any purpose. Don't want any hanky panky free license. Huh? If you mean GPL, it is there to prevent ugly little comedies like theft

RE: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-26 Thread D. Stark - eSN
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 6:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Free programming language On Friday 26 January 2001 08:16, you wrote: Hi Linuxians, I need a list of free programming

RE: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-26 Thread Thomas Sourmail
There are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice, eh? Silly question maybe, do the same sort of things exist for Tcl/Tk ? Thanks, Thomas.

RE: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-26 Thread D. Stark - eSN
Sourmail Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Free programming language There are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice, eh? Silly question maybe, do the same sort of things exist for Tcl/Tk ? Thanks, Thomas.

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-26 Thread Ian Land
Try: http://icemcfd.com/tcl/ice.html There are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice, eh? Silly question maybe, do the same sort of things exist for Tcl/Tk ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They said I was mad; and I said they were mad; damn them, they outvoted me" -

RE: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-26 Thread SJN
ary 26, 2001 9:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Free programming language He's right. Anything YOU create in C (or C++ or Perl or whatever) belongs to YOU, regardless of who wrote the compiler/interpreter. Understand, though, that any libraries you dynamically link to (or perl module

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-26 Thread civileme
On Friday 26 January 2001 17:21, you wrote: Thanks for the reply. Actually I am trying to avoid falling into a quicksand. I don't want later when I have written the program in a specific linux-based programmig language, the original author of the programming language impose royalty or

RE: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-26 Thread D. Stark - eSN
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Free programming language Thanks for the reply. Actually I am trying to avoid falling into a quicksand. I don't want later when I have written the program in a specific linux-based programmig language

Re: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-26 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 26 January 2001 12:06, you wrote: If you have done little programming and want one that is simple to start with but has a lot of power, I would recommend Python. It has inherently clean code and oject-oriented features, and with the aid of its extensive libraries and bindings,

RE: [expert] Free programming language

2001-01-26 Thread SJN
Thanks a lot. I'll check with the distro disks. Joe RLU# 186063 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Free programming language On Friday 26