Jack, LOL:
*Yuppers. That's the point. No language is perfect. I gave up on theQuest for the Perfect Language when Forth went out of favor.* I had a version of Forth on my 48K Sinclair Spectrum. Get one word wrong and back to the start! Still have the machine and the software. Just in case! On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:49 PM Jack J. Woehr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/30/20 8:08 PM, David Crayford wrote: > > I can think of a few dynamically typed languages that are designed > > better than Python. But none that are as well equipped. > > Yuppers. That's the point. No language is perfect. I gave up on the > Quest for the Perfect Language when Forth went out of favor. > > But as a scripting language to be coronated as "strategic" by IBM on > legacy platforms, z and i, it's the best choice. Sez me, take that :) > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - > Carl Sagan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
