On Jun 26, 2016 5:29 PM, "Michael Torrie" <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 06/26/2016 12:47 PM, Christopher Reimer wrote:
> Sounds like fun. Every aspiring programmer should write an interpreter > for some language at least once in his life! In the mid 1970' s I helped maintain an installation of IBM' s APL interpreter at Boeing Computer Services. APL uses its own special character set, making code unambiguous and terse. It used a left-arrow for assignment, which was treated as just another operator. I will always miss "embedded assignment". A year later I worked on a project that ran on a CDC 6600? where only FORTRAN was available. The program's job was to apply user's commands to manage a file system. FORTRAN was not the best language for that task, so I designed my own language, and wrote an interpreter for it in FORTRAN. In retrospect a very good decision. That program was in use for 10 years! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
