Re: Q about other languages...
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Everett L.(Rett) Williams wrote:
> Euphoria appears, spiritually to be an heir of early COBOL more
> than anything like C. Of course, we no longer have the infamous "DATA
> DIVISION" or any of it's confreres, but we do have a procedural language
> that reads a little like an outline of a process in English(or whatever
> non-symbolic language you might choose). I even object to the += stuff
> because it takes away from the clean, mathematical and logical design of the
> language for a short hand...but I'll live and it is useful.
Euphoria seems to contain some of the better bits of just about every
programming language (except Intercal, which _has_ no good bits.).
To me, Euphoria appears to be Lisp implemented by a Pascal programmer.
There are also some very creative new ideas included, some of which don't
work all that well. Specifically, the data storage scheme, which inflates your
data files dramatically. (Maybe a Microsoft programmer designed that part...:)
Irv
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
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