Oskar Sandberg wrote: > One thing I don't understand is why this needs to be a "language" at all. > Granted, I don't study CS, so I never had to learned the meaning of > turing-complete et al and what is a language and what isn't, but it seems to > me > that what we want is not a language at all, but a simple expression syntax for > evaluating the functions based on constants. Something somewhere inbetween > procmail and altavista advanced search.
The word "language" is used here in the same sense as what Bentley calls "small languages" - domain-specific languages that are usually not as capable as complete programming languages such as C or Java. Examples of such languages are Makfiles, pic, sed, awk. Altavista's advanced search is also a "small language" in this sense, as is a "simple expression syntax" or a regex. Maybe we need a better word - "Jargon", "Lingo"? -- Itamar S.T. itamar at maxnm.com Fingerprint = D365 7BE8 B81E 2B18 6534 025E D0E7 92DB E441 411C _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
