Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

On May 7, 2008, at 5:24 AM, Matt Erickson wrote:

> On 2008-05-02, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> pondered onto
> the tubes:
>>> 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 other languages that use block delimiters.
>>
>> don't forget fortran.
>
> I try to, oh God how I try to.  Then I come back to work in the
> morning, and have to remember it all over again.
>
> --
> Matt Erickson           <peawee@peawee.net>
> Political correctness is not insane. You want to call it
> "alternatively
> reality-based". - Richard Bos, Usenet
>

Good luck. My next compiler will do Fortran 77, and hopefully 90. It
will be #f, where # is the prefix (so 8f for 386).

A new Bentley is up, in the usual place. This adds full procedures and
functions with arguments, expression statements (like in C), and
demotes assignment from a statement to an operator. The next version
will have it right-associative (a := b := c := 0). I also plan to have
scope.

I'm surprised at how quickly I'm getting through this. I expected some
2 year project getting as much as the Sieve of Erastosthenes to work.