In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said: > Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 21:14:33 -0300 > > Unless there is another language with the same name, troff is not a > programming language. nroff and troff are the Unix spinoffs from > runoff, and format marked-up text. Sort of like Script on barbituates. > What's a programming language? Must it have variables, assignment statements, loops, GOTOs, ...? LISP 1.0 has none of those, yet is generally deemed a programming language. I know no troff, so I don't know its capabilities. PostScript, however, while generally used to format text has variables, assignments, loops, and subroutines, so the PostScript-savvy recognize it as a programming language.
JCL is on the borderline. What does the "L" stand for? I suppose a harsh criterion might be the power to emlate a universal Turing machine, subject only to storage constraints. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
