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From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New programming language: SCRIPTIC
Message-ID: <1052@cbnewsk.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 89 03:13:15 GMT
References: <327@wmt.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 33

From article <327@wmt.UUCP>, by vila@wmt.UUCP (Vincent van der Laan):
> It is a new computer language called SCRIPTIC that greatly simplifies
> parallel and event driven programming...

> Just one simple example to get you interested: the following program
> prints 'Hello' when you press 'h' or 'Goodbye' when you press 'g'.
> 
> main = Key('h'!); {printf("Hello")} | Key('g'!); {printf("Goodbye")}

I think I need a more compelling example.  Shucks:

	for (;;) {
		switch (getc()) {
		case 'h':
			printf ("Hello");
			break;
		case 'g':
			printf ("Goodbye");
			break;
		default:
			continue:
		}
		break;
	}
Now, this may be a bit more verbose, but the flow is pretty obvious, the
extensibility (to have more than h and g) is pretty obvious, and I'm a
bit uncomfortable with the operator binding ( ; has higher precedence than
| has higher precedence than =.  This could be interesting...).

Don't take me wrong: this may be a step forward.  But you need to show a
bit more...

=Ned Horvath=