Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!orc!bu.edu!bucsf.bu.edu!nagendra From: nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: C compiiler on Apple II+ ? Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 90 06:20:01 GMT References: <105500001@hpcuhc.HP.COM> <105500002@hpcuhc.HP.COM> <8742@chaph.usc.edu> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston University Lines: 32 In-reply-to: hozman@nunki.usc.edu's message of 22 Mar 90 01:34:09 GMT >>>>> On 22 Mar 90 01:34:09 GMT, hozman@nunki.usc.edu (The Hoz!!!) said: > In article nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) writes: >Actually, Forth dimension is where it's at and is goin to be for some time. >For those who don't know, Forth Dimension is a language developed for the >MAC in which the user does not need to know how to program, he simply tells >the computer what he wants, and it's done. ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ > ^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ || |||||| ||||| > ||| |||||||| |||| || ||||| ||| |||| |||| || |||||| ||||| > Forgive me, but isn't this what programming is; telling the computer what > you want it to do??? :^> Programming's purpose is to instruct computers to perform a certain amount of operations. If a new programming language is developed so that the user can have greater power to use his computer then it is a better method of programming. In the past, machine was the only language you could write code in. Some engineers got togather and developed FORTRAN. It was the third generation of programming. Later, ALGOL was developed in order to make programming more elegant. ALGOL evolved into Pascal and later into C. The next step in to go into a environment where the user simply tells the computer what he wants done, the environment writes the necessary code. In order to implement such levels of usefullness, then you need a considerable station to work on. The original post was trying to say that it was developed for the mac because it is the only environment suitable for these kinds of advancements. It won't come down to the Apple II, unless we get hordes of new users and more umph inside the box. nagendra