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Reminds me if tabloid language, were the translation would be : DISCOVER HOW TO words WITH document
DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT HOW TO hello WITH name: PRINT "hello " + name
DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT HOW TO hello WITH name:
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DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT HOW TO hello WITH name: PRINT "hello " + name
I think: DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT HOW TO hello WITH name: YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS "hello " + name
HERE ARE THE TOP 10 fibbonacci_numbers:
YOU WON'T BELIEVE n := 6
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C uses ^ for bitwise xor and a function for exponentiation, though.
No, C does not have an exponentiation operator! Possibly you meant "and not a function for exponentiation". I should have said "followed Fortran rather than BASIC".
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No, C does not have an exponentiation operator! Possibly you meant "and not a function for exponentiation". I should have said "followed Fortran rather than BASIC".
I meant exactly what I said. C uses a function for exponentiation. Nothing that uses ^ for powers follows C's lead. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/numeric/math/pow.html
Nice find. This looks like the best introduction to the language in the repo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gvanrossum/abc-unix/refs/h...
Wow 2 * 1000 without rounding errors, 40 years ago this must have been super impressive, since I find that quite a feat of today's python.
LISP had it, Smalltalk had it, Unix dc/bc had it.
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Well, not as bad as something like public static function words(string $document): array { which some languages these days are coming up with.
While I agree, at least here every word, though is verbose, at least means something, whereas “HOW TO RETURN” carries no more meaning than “def”.
>, though is verbose, at least means something
I disagree, it is hardly verbose. there can be further detailing of the input and return value of the function beyond a simple type. Java didn't go far enough, not by a long shot - we need hardcore painstaking, completely brutal typing. Such typing will be highly beneficial for software reliability - you're not against reliability are you?
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> 2**1000 = 2^1000 The reason for using `**` is that `^` is widely used for bitwise exclusive-or. So commonly `2**1000 != 2^1000`!
I think Fortran used ** because EBCDIC didn't have ^ or uparrow. ABC and Python followed Fortran rather than C on this point. units(1) supports both.
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I think Fortran used ** because EBCDIC didn't have ^ or uparrow. ABC and Python followed Fortran rather than C on this point. units(1) supports both.
BCD, actually, given that Fortran dates from the mid-1950s. EBCDIC only appeared more or less around Fortran IV, in the early 1960s. Many printers in those days had a 48-character chain/train. After upper-case letters, digits, and a few essential punctuation marks (like . and ,), you weren't left with many options. The 60-character set of PL/I was a luxury back then, let alone lower case.
But IBM's BCD character sets, including the 48-character ones you allude to, didn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCD_(character_encoding)#Examp... (though Honeywell's did)
There are a lot of decisions in Fortran that stem from the absence of useful characters. .LT., .LE., .EQ., .NE., .GT., and .GE. is another.
I swear I remember using this. I even remember the syntax. I was able to compile it and just start writing in it. I have no idea how I know this syntax. Did early linux have this? Maybe netbsd? I actually found it. It was on simtel: https://archive.org/details/Simtel20_Sept92 I must have gotten it from there. I would routinely get any thing Walnut Creek would make. I also realized a couple years ago I could navigate…
Can you tell me about "Simtel"? I have never used a BBS but from looking at that ISO it was a collection of software downloaded from BBS' ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel
It was called SIMTEL20 for a while because it was hosted on a PDP-10 mainframe running the TOPS-20 operating system, but apparently it was hosted on a PDP-10 running ITS first:
> The archive was hosted initially on the MIT-MC PDP-10 running the Incompatible Timesharing System,[1] then TOPS-20, then FreeBSD servers