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

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From: Holveck
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 19:44

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--- I have seen the FUN ---

>>>>> "imc" == Ian Collier <imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk> writes:

    >> 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... :-)

For all its high points (including that it meets our criteria above),
REXX always tends to be just a little bit short of powerful enough.

(doning asbestos underwear) Perhaps we could extend REXX, however, and
adapt it.
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From: joelh@pollock.math.swt.edu (Holveck)
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Subject: Re: Why not BASIC ? (was Re: GNU Script ...)
Date: 21 Nov 1994 19:44:11 GMT
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