On Mar 10, 9:49 am, la...@wall.org (Larry Wall) wrote:
Algol68 would have done much better had it been Open Source software...
If Algol68 was *GPL* Open-Source, then I could take the Zilog Z80
implementation Algol68C and have a HLL on my TI-84 _Pocket_ Calculator
(rather the existing choice of
On Mar 10, 9:49 am, la...@wall.org (Larry Wall) wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:10:29AM +1100, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
: Algol 68 is notorious as a failure. Let's hope things are
: different here.
So they say:
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=site:www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD+algol-68
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Carl Mäsak wrote:
Meanwhile, the uncanny similarities between Perl 6 and Algol 68
continue to strike me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68 (]):
] ALGOL 68 [...] was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 programming
] language, designed with the goal of a much wider
I think of p6 as more like the Ada of the 21st century. Whether it
was a success or not depends on whom you ask, but it had similar
criticisms and delays. And was commissioned to be the US federal
govt's answer to Algol 68. Which may not have been a big hit, but it
had a profound effect on
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:10:29AM +1100, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
: On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Carl Mäsak wrote:
:
: Meanwhile, the uncanny similarities between Perl 6 and Algol 68
: continue to strike me:
:
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68 (]):
: ] ALGOL 68 [...] was conceived as a successor
On Mar 9, 2010, at 18:10 , Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
Algol 68 is notorious as a failure. Let's hope things are
different here.
As a programming language, it was a failure, in large part because it
was a bit too forward-looking for the available compiler technology.
(It's still a bit
commitbot (), Brandon ():
+ has $!age is ref; # BUILD will automatically use ref binding, not copy
Perl6 isn't done until it has reinvented Algol 68?
Unaware of what Algol 68 represents in programming language history, I
perused Wikipedia's article on Algol 68:
I imagine Brandon was more referring to pass-by-reference, which was
introduced into procedural HLLs by Algol-68.
On Monday, March 8, 2010, Carl Mäsak cma...@gmail.com wrote:
commitbot (), Brandon ():
+ has $!age is ref; # BUILD will automatically use ref binding, not
copy
Perl6 isn't
commitbot (), Brandon (), Mark (), Carl ():
+ has $!age is ref; # BUILD will automatically use ref binding, not
copy
Perl6 isn't done until it has reinvented Algol 68?
[...]
I'm not sure what exactly the repercussions of doing attribute
initialization with 'is ref' are apart from
On Mar 8, 2010, at 06:23 , Carl Mäsak wrote:
commitbot (), Brandon ():
+has $!age is ref; # BUILD will automatically use ref
binding, not copy
Perl6 isn't done until it has reinvented Algol 68?
Unaware of what Algol 68 represents in programming language history, I
perused Wikipedia's
On Mar 8, 2010, at 11:04 , Carl Mäsak wrote:
commitbot (), Brandon (), Mark (), Carl ():
+has $!age is ref; # BUILD will automatically use ref
binding, not copy
Perl6 isn't done until it has reinvented Algol 68?
[...]
I'm not sure what exactly the repercussions of doing attribute
Author: lwall
Date: 2010-03-07 15:42:59 +0100 (Sun, 07 Mar 2010)
New Revision: 29976
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod
Log:
[S06,S12] make attributive parameters default to 'is copy' binding
make easy way for an attribute to override this with 'is
On Mar 7, 2010, at 09:42 , pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
+has $!age is ref; # BUILD will automatically use ref binding,
not copy
Perl6 isn't done until it has reinvented Algol 68?
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