You can take the globals away, just give me a couple gig of symbol table space. :)
If I couldn't use MUMPS regularly, I'd want to use Perl. Coding is quick and only as formal as you need it to be. Both feel loose and comfortable, like working from home in old jeans and a T-shirt, sitting in a comfortable chair, cordless keyboard in lap. Other languages are always formal. Like working in the office, wearing a tie, and using a two button mouse with a cord. I've got a better idea. Let's keep the globals and get rid of the user i/o. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Woodhouse Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 4:08 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] No globals allowed On Oct 15, 2005, at 1:00 PM, steven mcphelan wrote: > I would agree with you Greg. Without the global structure why > would one > chose M over another language which is much more common, more thrid > party > tools, etc., etc. etc. But the inclusion of globals makes M a very > powerful > tool in the right hands. It has proven itself more efficient and > faster > than most others in the task for which it was originally designed > which was > a language to support database applications. > > My point wasn't to be negative ("There's nothing good about MUMPS but globals") but to screen out the "obvious" answer to "What do you like about MUMPS?" Lately, I've been thinking about functional languages and how very large persistent lists might be handled. No, it's no accident that I was just now installing HUGS. I have a great time working with Scheme (a LISP dialect), but decided it was about time I learned ML or Haskell. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Prediction is difficult, especially of the future." --Niels Bohr ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
