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Re: New Programming Language - any ideas?

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"Flag" <michael.mustun@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Remember the days writing just BEEP to get a beep? Or SOUND 440 to get an
> A? Or just enter PLOT 10,10 to get a dot at 10,10 ?
>
> There are many programming languages... Give me my simple BASIC back!

There are hundreds of Basics. You can probably find one that can still do
PLOT 10,10, but it might only place the dot inside a window.

> Why is it so hard to just compare a string with another in some languages?

The languages where it's difficult, are quite likely the ones used to
implement the rest!

> put word 3 to 6 of "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." into
> theVariable
>
> Compared with Java:
>
> String [] theWords = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
> dog".split(" ");
> String theVariable = "";
> for(int i = 2; i <= 5; i++) {
> theVariable += theWords[i] + " ";
> }

At least Java seems to cope with variable length strings and lists. But it
doesn't appear to have a 'join' function built-in. That means you'd have to
create it. Then the last part of that becomes:

String theVariable = join(theWords," ");

not that different from other short examples that have been given. (And you
won't have a trailing space either...)

> A new language
> --------------
>
> So let's start a new one: (It's a quick and dirty hack right now.)
>
> Hello World:
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~michael-mustun/cl/trunk/view/head:/hello.cl
>
> The basic idea is to get the best of some languages and put it into one.

That's looks more like the Frankenstein approach to creating a language!

And you haven't taken the best bits either: The need for 'break' in C's
'switch' statement is poor design, and its 'for' statement must be one  of
the most convoluted ways of writing a simple iterative loop ever devised
(even using 'goto' would be less work to write).

-- 
Bartc 

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New Programming Language - any ideas? Flag <michael.mustun@gmail.com> - 2013-02-04 22:43 +0100
  Re: New Programming Language - any ideas? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-02-08 00:05 +0000
    Re: New Programming Language - any ideas? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-02-08 01:10 +0000
  Re: New Programming Language - any ideas? mertesthomas@gmail.com - 2013-02-08 04:23 -0800
    Re: New Programming Language - any ideas? Flag <michael.mustun@gmail.com> - 2013-02-08 22:02 +0100
  Re: New Programming Language - any ideas? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-02-08 18:03 +0000
  Re: New Programming Language - any ideas? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-02-08 10:20 -0800
    Re: New Programming Language - any ideas? Flag <michael.mustun@gmail.com> - 2013-02-08 21:59 +0100
  Re: New Programming Language - any ideas? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-02-09 10:40 +0000

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