Path: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!news.uh.edu!news.sccsi.com!nuchat!igate.dmccorp.com!jleslie From: jleslie@dmccorp.com (Jerry Leslie) Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: C is for me (was Re: nfs) Date: 10 Jun 1995 13:39:07 GMT Organization: Dynamic Matrix Control 713/313-5000 Lines: 93 Message-ID: <3rc79r$8oj@tattoo.sccsi.com> References: <3qvjj1$daa@clarknet.clark.net> <3r7jos$80t@clarknet.clark.net> <3r9t1i$rge@clarknet.clark.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dmccorp.sccsi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jay Kreibich (jak@uiuc.edu) wrote: : Fortran is a much simple language, however. Much easier to optimize. : Not very useful for "real" programing. One of Univac's O/S & FORTRAN gurus, Jack Perrine, quit when EXEC 8 came out, since he believed in EXEC 2 and FORTRAN V. He provided FORTRAN V support to my former employer for a number of years, and re-wrote EXEC 2 in FORTRAN V. (This was in the 1967-1970 time-frame). FORTRAN V was the first compiler I saw with the PARAMETER and INCLUDE statements. It also had conditional compilation, using a DELETE 'statement label',parameter value e.g.: DELETE 1000,IKEEP {conditional code that would be deleted as a function of IKEEP } 1000 CONTINUE FORTRAN V was used to write such things as a cross-assembler for General Electric process control computers, to reassemble their operating systems, RTMOS, as well as more typical applications such as seismic data processing. --Jerry, Gerald (Jerry) R. Leslie jleslie@dmccorp.com gleslie@isvsrv.enet.dec.com Dynamic Matrix Control Corporation (my opinions are my own) ============================================================================== No one has mentioned C+- yet... ;-) [forwards deferenced into oblivion] ---------- ~From: Richard Katz C + - (pronounced "C more or less") Unlike C++, C+- is a subject oriented language. Each C+- class instance known as a subject, holds hidden members, known as prejudices or undeclared preferences, which are impervious to outside messages, as well as public members known as boasts or claims. The following C operators are overridden as shown: > better than < worse than >> much better than << forget it ! not on your life == comparable, other things being equal. C+- is a strongly typed language based on stereotyping and self-righteous logic. The Boolean variables TRUE and FALSE (known as constants in less realistic languages) are supplemented with CREDIBLE and DUBIOUS, which are fuzzier than Zadeh's traditional fuzzy categories. All Booleans can be declared with the modifiers strong and weak. Weak implication is said to "preserve deniability" and was added at the request of the D.O.D. to ensure compatability with future versions of Ada. Well-formed falsehoods (WFFs) are assignment-compatible with all Booleans. What-if and why-not interactions are aided by the special conditional evenifnot X then Y. C+- supports information hiding and, among friend classes only, rumor sharing. Borrowing from the Eiffel lexicon, non-friend classes can be killed by arranging contracts. Note that friendships are intransitive, volatile, and non-Abelian. Single and multiple inheritance mechanisms are implemented with random mutations. Disinheritance rules are covered by a complex probate protocol. In addition to base, derrived, virtual, and abstract classes, C+- supports gut classes. In certian locales, polygamous derivations and bastard classes are permitted. Elsewhere, loose coupling between classes is illegal, so the marriage and divorce operators may be needed: marriage (MParent1, FParent1); // child classes can now be derrived sclass MySclass: public MParent1, FParent1 { // define MySclass sclass YourSclass: public MParent1, FParent2 // illegitimate divorce (MParent1, FParent1); marriage (MParent1, FParent2); sclass YourSclass: public MParent1, FParent2 { // OK now Operator precedence rules can be suspended with the directive #pragma dwim, known as the "Do what I mean" pragma. ANSIfication will be firmly resisted. C+-'s slogan is "Be Your Own Standard."