Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!eos!eugene From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Algol-style semicolons Message-ID: <2185@eos.UUCP> Date: 21 Dec 88 08:41:31 GMT References: <1126@etive.ed.ac.uk> <208100002@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <868@mcrware.UUCP> <8008@aw.sei.cmu.edu> <88Dec16.100919est.4327@turing.toronto.edu> <9235@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 21 Some random ponderings based on comments to ALGOL like languages (gross oversimplifications): I wonder if the COBOL people argue over the '.' [period] as a statement terminator as the semicolon as a seperater or terminator? {Perlis's had an Epigram on this (I sent them to comp.lang.sigplan but have not seen them reposted).} Modula-2 is appears closer to Mesa than Modula[-1]. You only need read the text. Wonders what a sabbatical at PARC will do for you 8-). On ":=" versus "=": Altos had an backward arrow assignment key, not "<-" for Mesa. (this could correspond to other language arrows (UP) ^ and (RIGHT) "->".) Just standardize some extra characters. 8-) It will never happen. Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "Mailers?! HA!", "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {uunet,hplabs,ncar,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugene "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."