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Article #2937Re: A comment on language wars.
From: Paul Crowley
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 00:35
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 00:35
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In article <1991Mar10.145908.10575@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> billk@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley) writes:
>Definition of an interpreter:
> A case statement inside a do loop.
Corollary: Most X programs are interpreters.
I think that some restrictions need to be placed on the way the output
depends on the input. Including a separation between "program" and
"input to program" and some sort of restrictions on the ways the program
may change at run time (basically so that the operative word is "change"
rather than "be created").
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aipdc From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: A comment on language wars. Message-ID: <9053@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 11 Mar 91 00:35:47 GMT References: <MARKF.91Mar6122504@montreux.ai.mit.edu> <7HY9P4G@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Mar10.145908.10575@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> Organization: Edinburgh University Lines: 14