Re: Why not BASIC ? (was Re: GNU Script ...)

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From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 22:06

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imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) writes:

>In article <3agcr4$ce2@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, romanov@alex.nacto.lkg.dec.com (Aleksey Y. Romanov) wrote:
>|I meant simple procedural language. I think that following requirements
>|are important:

>|  - it has to be exisiting language
>|  - it has to be simple enough non CS/Math/Physcs majors to use
>|  - it has to be interpretive

>It sounds like REXX to me... :-)

I remember that REXX has some kind of dynamic eval statement. So the
the Scheme interpreter in GEL (or what is the current name?) would
need some kind of call-back to the REXX->Scheme translator for
translating code.

Is this planned?

I mentioned Rexx earlier in one of the 'GNU Scripting Language'
threads, but I only a REXX-hater did a follow-up. 

-Andi

-- 
|andi@golem.greenie.muc.de      Nonsense is better than no sense at all.
|Andi Kleen@2:2480/440.12                           -NoMeansNo, 0+2=1

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Subject: Re: Why not BASIC ? (was Re: GNU Script ...)
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