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Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking !

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Malcolm said:
>No what you mean is that it will run on any machine that supports a C
>compiler.

    No, what I said is that it is compiled to C code, then compiled again by 
your C-Compiler to object code

It's quite common for start-up languages to compile to C for this
reason. However the source language itself doesn't have to be remotely
like C, it could be from the Lisp family of languages or something
entirely of your own invention.

    But xHarbour is absolutely like C !!   Any C programmer, can sit right 
down, and go to work !   (without worrying about being hand-cuffed with new, 
restrictive syntactical rules)

    (After about 11 years, you still call it a 'start-up' language ???   ---  
Hmmmmph !)

    **************************

    aMyArray = ARRAY(12)

    amyarray[1]="January" ; AMYARRAY[12] := "December"
    AmYArRaY[6] := DATE()

    (i.e., you don't get screwed with Upppercase, Lowercase  syntax crap, 
its all the same array)

    or,
    aCrap := {3.1415926,"3.14",date(),seconds(),"etcetera")


    ? aCrap[4]    // kickls up a line, shows the seconds since midnite

    For I = 1 to 1000000    // a simple loop and counter
        // do anything here
    Next

    or

    For i = 1000000 to 1 skip -2
        // do anything backwards
    next

    while lHellFreezesOver    // any logical/boolean vrbl or expression
        // work away in here until time to exit
        EXIT
    end


-Mel

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C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-19 09:40 -0600
  Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-04-19 22:46 -0500
    Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-19 23:45 -0600
      Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-04-20 00:02 -0700
      Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-04-24 16:08 -0400
        Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-24 20:26 -0600
          Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-04-24 22:45 -0700
            Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-25 09:17 -0600
              Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! David Resnick <lndresnick@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 08:28 -0700
                Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-25 10:31 -0600
                Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! David Resnick <lndresnick@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 09:37 -0700
                Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-25 10:44 -0600
                Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! David Resnick <lndresnick@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 12:00 -0700
              Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Joe Wright <joewwright@comcast.net> - 2011-04-25 11:56 -0400
              Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-04-26 01:21 +0000
              Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-26 18:02 -0400
                Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-04-26 16:34 -0700
          Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-04-25 02:08 -0700
            Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-25 09:49 -0600
              Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-04-25 09:43 -0700
              Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-25 14:25 -0400
              Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-04-26 01:34 +0000
                Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-04-26 03:09 +0100
                Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-04-26 03:03 +0000
                Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-04-25 23:40 -0700
  Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Sourav <souravmishra26@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 20:46 -0700

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