Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 80, Issue 5

2021-05-07 Thread ben via cctalk
On 5/6/2021 6:43 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: I wonder. Consider object oriented programming, where objects that have all manner of stuff inside are treated as a unit and have operations performed on them. I don't buy the class model of OOP. Classes are LIKE each other not someting that

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 80, Issue 5

2021-05-06 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On May 6, 2021, at 5:53 PM, Adam Thornton via cctalk > wrote: > >> ... > Yes, that. C is a great assembly language preprocessor for a PDP-11. The > PDP-11 is a beautiful, intelligible architecture, where things happen one > at a time in sequence. This is easy to think about. Unfortunate

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 80, Issue 5

2021-05-06 Thread Adam Thornton via cctalk
From: Liam Proven > To: "Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > Subject: Re: Motor generator > > I think because for lesser minds, such as mine, [APL is] line noise. > > A friend of mine, a Perl guru, studied A-Plus for a while. (Morgan > Stanley's in-house APL dialect.) He said to me that "