Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
From: Bryan Olson (nameless_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 02/25/05
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:31:45 GMT
Tom Linden wrote:
> I don't think you know anything about PL/I. It was never designed
> by surveying customers, in fact, it had an algebraic top down design
> based on the Vienna Definition Language. In fact, aside from Ada, I
> would venture to sat that it is the only language that was ever so
> rigorously designed.
Hold on ... I'll check ... no, VDL's role was to describe its
semantics. VDL itself is describes operations on states; it uses
mathematical expressions to define how computer languages work.
PL/I is definitely not an implementation of a mathematically
elegant algebra.
>> Contrast that with APL. Iverson initially devised APL as an
>> improvement upon existing mathematical notation, not existing
>> programming languages.
-- --Bryan
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