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From: ron@celerity.UUCP (Ron McDaniels)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: Subject: Choice of programming language
Message-ID: <301@celerity.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 14:01:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 19 14:01:04 1985
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Organization: Celerity Computing, San Diego, Ca.
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In article <2641@topaz.ARPA> Jacob_Palme_QZ@QZCOM.MAILNET writes:
>From: Jacob_Palme_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
>
>We are just planning the start of writing a large and complex
>system, which will, when ready, consist of two cooperating programs,
>one on a main-frame, one on a PC or workstation, communicating
>via different net protocols.
>
			. . .
>
>We are at present considering which programming language to use
>for this project. The main alternatives under discussion are
>Pascal
>Modula 2
>Ada
>C
>Forth
>
>If Forth is chosen, our intention is not to use any existing
>Forth interpreter or compiler, but rather write our own compiler
>which will be ported as part of the portation effort. We will
>then also probably modify the Forth language definition to suit
>our application. Thus, we would avoid the problems with writing
>portable software of encountering variyng quality of the compilers
>on the various goal machines.
>
>Can I have comments on our choice of programming language. We
>are very open for your comments, no decision has been taken yet.

By all means create your own dialect of FORTH. While your at it,
you can add the best features of PL-I, F77 and CORAL66. Then, look
me up when you get out of college and we'll show you how it's done
when you have to make a living (wow! I didn't know I could be so
cynical).



R. L. (Ron) McDaniels

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