On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 8:45:27 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: <Description of the task of first-classing syntax snipped>
> I suspect you'll find the task fundamentally hard. How hard? Lets see. Two guys wanted to write an OS. Seeing current languages not upto their standard they first made themselves a suitable language. Would you call their project hard ridiculous and misguided? Well evidently some people did but fortunately their managers did not interfere. OTOH some others liked the ideas/outlook enough that they jumped on the bandwagon and in short order there were - a heavy duty compilation system -- parser generators to librarians etc - editor(s) - source code systems - text tools (grep sed) - shell In short a 'Programmer's Work Bench' http://www.ics.uci.edu/~andre/ics228s2006/dolottamashey.pdf Now if Thomson and Ritchie (yeah thems the guys) could do it in 1970, why cant we revamp this 45-year old archaic program=textfile system today? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
