By the way is Transcript still the official term for Revs programming language?
Spent an hour looking for links references and articles on English-like programming languages - looking at the syntax. Found no good links yet. Lots of stuff about COBOL, things about how it was the flavour of the month in the 80's - how good perl is. Here is a nice quote from http://www.whynot.net/ideas/1441:
By this, I mean the source file would be something like a text file.. and the interpreter would interpret the english language commands and build a program based on it. The commands for the English Programming Language could be something like this (consider this a raw source file): <begin source> First, create a window approximately 75% of the screen size. Then, add two menus to the top, one File and one Help. Under the File menu, add Exit. When a user clicks on Exit, the program should exit. Under the help menu, add a simple About option that describes this program. Now create two buttons in the main window (the first one). The first button should say "Message", and the second one should say "Exit" (without the quotes). When a user clicks on Message, a message box should pop up saying "Hello, World!". When the user clicks on the Exit button, the program should exit. <end source>
Now that would be more English-like than Transcript, but to date i cannot find anything much more English-like than the syntax of Transcript. There is some AI stuff like - http://www.softwaretheories.com/Examples/index.html(not a good link) - and Ruslan you there - some older links I had for parsers that took XML - there is an MIT project to create a meta language... but no good links I can find - and certainly nothing solid and useable. So the question is this - is Transcipt the best real programming language out there in terms of it's English-likeness! That is the ease in which a non-programmer, or non-speaker of the computer language can understand it? Help, links, rants and gossip appreciated! _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
