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From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: What language would you use?
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Steven Miale (smiale@cs.indiana.edu) wrote:

: >> there and count parens to make sure they are balanced. Silly;
: >> this is the '90s, not the '60s.
: >
: >Precisely.  Use an editor that does your matching for you and that
: >tells you what's matching what.

: This only works if all the code fits on the screen. If the program
: is a thousand lines long and consists of many functions, this won't
: help much.

Bull.  Under gnu emacs the delimiter-matching stuff is quite useful
(to me it's indispensable) even if the matching paren is 1000 lines
away.

: >> It gives many of the benefits of Scheme (interpreted, not having to
: >> worry about types, etc.) with a clean, procedural syntax.
: >
: >What, pray, is an "interpreted" language?

: Uh, not a compiled language? :-)

Compilation vs. interpretaiton is an implementation question, not a
language feature (though some languages lend themselves more easily to
one than the other).

--
Grant Edwards                                 |Yow!  Oh, I get it!!  ``The
Rosemount Inc.                                |BEACH goes on,'' huh,
                                              |SONNY??
grante@rosemount.com                          |
