> 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. > > If I were to make such a beast, I would use a simple lisp like syntax, minus > recursion.
This is more or less what Sesil is, except rather than using a Lisp syntax I use RPN which is even simpler to parse. It has no control flow statements, or even any decision-making statements. It is essentially like altavista's advanced search in terms of power, but with a wider selection of commands. Ian. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
