in message <867homm1qf....@red.stonehenge.com>, wrote Randal L. Schwartz thusly... > > >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman > >>>>> <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: > > Matthew> As far as I know, perl and its descendant ruby are the > Matthew> only programming languages that let you put the > Matthew> condition test after the action, despite this being > Matthew> exceeding familiar in human languages. > > Except, we old-timers remember that Larry Wall directly lifted this > from RSTS-E BASIC-PLUS, which he had used at Pacific University as a > student. Having hacked BASIC-PLUS myself around the same time, I > recognized it instantly. > > BASIC-PLUS went further though, allowing them to be nested. So > you'd end up with monstrosities like:
"Beauty is in the eye ...", or, perhaos you would prefer "Only a mother would ...". > PRINT a > IF a % 3 = 2 > FOR a = b TO b+7 > FOR b = 0 TO 90 STEP 10; Oh Randal, don't tease me please about the lack of such loveliness in perl. - parv -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
