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Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python)

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On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:19:22 -0700, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
wrote:

>As with all compiled software, you maintain the input, not the output.
>
	<hah!>

	I spent nearly 20 years having to maintain the /output/ of such a
translator.

	The application had originated via a subcontractor who maintained
ownership of the translator, and my company only inherited the
translated output.

	I had the joy of porting the application from PDP-11 to VAX-11. In
the early days, if any changes were needed to a program I tended to
rewrite the code entirely (the application was many small programs each
doing just one individual task on a common graphics display, and the
"controller" user interface which displayed pages of forms, wrote all
data to a binary file used to populate common blocks used by the
sub-programs). This was mostly to bring it down to manageable sizes --
the output used ASSIGNed GOTOs to implement subroutine calls (no
parameter passing, everything was global!) -- the only good thing was it
was easy to identify translator generated output as it was
right-justified on the lines:
									ASSIGN 1001 TO I123
									GOTO 2200
1001								CONTINUE

{subroutine call -- save return address, jump subroutine...}

	After about 10 years of this, I was able to bloody CODE in that
style, rather than rewriting smaller programs into individual files.
Granted, as much as possible, IF NOT CONDITION GOTO statements were
changed into F77 styel IF CONDITION THEN ... ELSE... ENDIF; but the
local subroutine calls were left in place.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
        wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Michal Hantl <michal.hantl@gmail.com> - 2012-02-02 06:09 -0800
  Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Paul  Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> - 2012-02-02 08:30 -0800
    Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-02-02 12:12 -0500
    Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Michal Hantl <michal.hantl@gmail.com> - 2012-02-02 12:23 -0800
      Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) "bruno.desthuilliers@gmail.com" <bruno.desthuilliers@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 04:03 -0800
  Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-02-02 22:53 +0000
  Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-02-02 18:19 -0700
    Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> - 2012-02-03 11:42 +0100
      Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-02-06 19:52 -0800
  Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 13:51 +1100
  Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Nathan Rice <nathan.alexander.rice@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 09:08 -0500
  Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-02-03 11:20 -0500
  Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 17:24 +0000

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