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Re: Is there a control for this?

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On Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 8:59:35 PM UTC, Evertjan. wrote:
> JRS wrote on 17 Nov 2018 in comp.lang.javascript:
> 
> > On Friday, November 16, 2018 at 9:33:46 PM UTC, Evertjan. wrote:
> >> JRS wrote on 16 Nov 2018 in comp.lang.javascript:
> > 
> >> You should write and print numeric values as formatted strings.
> >> Algol taught me that.
> > 
> > 60 or 68?  I knew one of the authors of the Algol 60 Report, and I have
> > a printed copy.  <script type="text/Algol##"> would be nice, if widely
> > implemented. 
> 
> I don't remember, I only had this booklet about Algol,
> and that printing to the screen or to paper were not something default,
> but required a command, and that that command needed to specify the string 
> type.

Algol 60 did not specify the I/O; that was left to the implementation.
ICT/ICL Algol used a different procedure name for I & for O for each
type of variable.  The language was strongly typed, but with only a
small fixed set of types.

I once saw a French "Algol 60" manual in Blackwell's - it was not
standards-compliant, as the reserved words had been translated
into French.  And I once sent off for some Algol 60 FFT code to
study.  The compiler would have liked it; but the variable names
and the extensive comment were in Hungarian.


> Client-side accessing a file should be and is forbidden for browsers.

But that is necessary only if there is a client-server situation;
the use of JavaScript is not restricted to the Web.

I have just started MS IE 11, a sort of browser; I click on what
             <a href="seek.hta"><b>IE : SEEK.HTA</b></a>
displays; I get a new window, in which SEEK.HTA invokes
SEAKFYLE.JS, and that has as much access to the local
system as VBScript has.  SEAKFYLE.JS is run with the JScript
engine.


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Is there a control for this? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2018-11-15 04:43 -0800
  Re: Is there a control for this? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-11-15 15:49 +0000
  Re: Is there a control for this? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2018-11-15 16:51 +0100
    Re: Is there a control for this? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2018-11-15 10:17 -0800
      Re: Is there a control for this? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2018-11-15 23:19 +0100
        Re: Is there a control for this? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2018-11-16 03:49 -0800
          Re: Is there a control for this? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2018-11-16 12:58 +0100
            Re: Is there a control for this? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2018-11-16 10:51 -0800
              Re: Is there a control for this? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2018-11-16 22:33 +0100
                Re: Is there a control for this? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2018-11-17 03:26 -0800
                Re: Is there a control for this? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2018-11-17 21:59 +0100
                Re: Is there a control for this? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2018-11-18 06:29 -0800
                Re: Is there a control for this? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-11-18 15:44 +0000
    Re: Is there a control for this? Gloops <gloops@zailes.invalid.org.invalid> - 2018-11-18 10:35 +0100
      Re: Is there a control for this? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2018-11-18 11:32 +0100
        Re: Is there a control for this? Gloops <gloops@zailes.invalid.org.invalid> - 2018-11-29 17:08 +0100
      Re: Is there a control for this? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2018-11-18 05:37 -0800
      Re: Is there a control for this? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-11-18 17:13 +0100
        Re: Is there a control for this? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2018-11-18 21:28 +0100
          Re: Is there a control for this? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2018-11-19 02:51 -0800

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