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Re: LISP and FORTRAN reminiscing

Robin Haberkorn — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:27:21 GMT

... hey I'm not denying anything :-) Actually I'm very interested. I have limited experience with FORTRAN 77 (and only used the OpenWatcom dialect) but never

Re: LISP and FORTRAN reminiscing

Charles Richmond — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:38:16 GMT

It's strange that you would have so many doubts, when I have told you that I *have* written the simulated recursive program using the ASSIGN'ed GOTO. :-)

Re: Dr. Dobbs CodeTalk: More Technonecrophilia with Snobol One-Liner

m.15775 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:25:19 GMT

More articles on Snobol have appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal since the one that Rafal cited. Jocelyn Paine, one of the DDJ Codetalk Gurus, has illustrated

Re: LISP and FORTRAN reminiscing

Gordon Peterson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:28:13 GMT

There are a variety of ways to jump to addresses, including several not based on an address in the machine language instruction. Usually you can also store

Re: LISP and FORTRAN reminiscing

Steve Wampler — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:06:48 GMT

... To take this even farther afield. A long time ago when teaching intro FORTRAN I showed the students how to pass a function as an argument, giving the

Re: LISP and FORTRAN reminiscing

Robin Haberkorn — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:40:27 GMT

interesting! ...sorry for intruding into the discussion but could you give an example, please? As far as I can remember, neither it is possible - for good

Re: Dr. Dobbs CodeTalk: More Technonecrophilia with Snobol One-Liner

Gordon Peterson — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:11:33 GMT

I've uploaded several comments to that article. ;-) ... -- Gordon Peterson II http://personal.terabites.com 1977-2007: Thirty year anniversary of local area

Re: LISP and FORTRAN reminiscing

Charles Richmond — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:38:37 GMT

... ASSIGNED GO TO can be used to simulate recursion in FORTRAN. I have used it to simulate recursion in processing a sorted tree. --

LISP and FORTRAN reminiscing

Walker, Radford — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:32:11 GMT

From: FredW ... One could argue that the "blank" for pattern matching is a pretty strange symbol in this context. It has bitten me a few times because I think

Re: Dr.Dobbs CodeTalk Snobol article

Charles Richmond — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:29:55 GMT

... Yes, in my experience, FORTRAN *always* kept the format as a string of characters and interpreted it as the printing was done. At least in *some* versions

Re: Dr.Dobbs CodeTalk Snobol article

FredW — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:38:25 GMT

Yes in FORTRAN IV ('ish, because different vendors had slightly different rules). READ(3,100) WRITE(4,100) 100 FORMAT(10HABCDEFGHIJ) If 1234567890 were punched

Re: Dr.Dobbs CodeTalk Snobol article

FredW — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:25:33 GMT

Gordon -- um... Lisp, Scheme, sh (unix shell), my own fbasic interpreter. Just four examples. Take sh as an example - `...` which executes an arbitrary

Re: Dr.Dobbs CodeTalk Snobol article

m.15775 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:06:56 GMT

... ... It's almost 40 years later in my case, too, but what I recall is that FORTRAN had an interpretive mode for Format statements. I worked in an

Dr. Dobbs CodeTalk: More Technonecrophilia with Snobol One-Liners

rms_s4 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:21:18 GMT

Author: "I don't think I want to imply that Snobol is dead: to me, it has more vitality than Perl"

Re: Dr.Dobbs CodeTalk Snobol article

Boyko Bantchev — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:51:24 GMT

2010/1/25 Michael Davis ... Yes, it is called Pop-11 and the Poplog system which implements it also implements several other