May I take the liberty to inform also on the existence of other free
languages, although absolutely not fashionable nowadays? I suggest
SNOBOL and ICON. They were both originally designed by Dr Ralph E.
Griswold (Arizona). I still prefer the former, but Icon is very much
preferable to those who are used to the syntax of standard-structured
languages as C or Pascal. The main field of application of these
languages is string scanning and parsing, but they can also be used as
general purpose. One advantage of Icon is that graphics need no
libraries -- graphics capabilities are internal to the language -- so
you can easily write a program for Linux and, if you want, compile
another version for Windows without changing a single line of code.
Links
(1) Snobol
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/philbudne/snobol.html
Here is Phil Budne's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> free Snobol interpreter, with
all the extension of Spitbol (a more modern version of the language, not
running on Linux). See also http://www.snobol4.com/ for Mark Emmer's
Snobol page.
(2) Icon
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ is the starting point. See also
http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/icon/ and http://icon.cs.unlv.edu/
Another version, named unicon, is being developed, and in the first page
listed above you'll find information on a Java porting of this language.
All of this is obviously free.
I have been using these languages for several purposed, including
musical analysis, and I find them very useful for my programming needs.
I am no professional programmer.
Best from Italy,
guido
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E-Mail: Guido Milanese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua, Genova, Italia
Homepage: http://www.arsantiqua.org
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