On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:42:17 +0100 "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rüdiger Müller wrote on 06 October 2008 17:55: > > God no. Think of the maintenance nightmare. > > You're not the first person to come up with this idea, and you > probably won't be the last, but it's a misbegotten idea, and there's In fact, I believe it came up around the time when COBOL was invented. And you'll notice that it didn't get implemented back then, even though people thought it wouldn't be all that hard to do. > a very good reason why it hasn't been done before, and that's not Actually, that's not true. In my Apple ][+ days, I've seen it done with BASIC. For some reason, it never amounted to more than a toy. I'm sure someone somewhere is doing it to a programming language right now. Poor language.
