After Parrot, what next?

Daniel Berlin dan at www.cgsoftware.com
Tue Apr 10 02:26:58 EDT 2001


On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Ken Seehof wrote:

> Oh yeah, forgot to mention.  The new language will be called Parabola.
But, of course, not for the reason you'd expect.

It's because it's what the graph of how much of a headache you have after
you attempt to write Parabola code looks like.
The dip is, of course, because the bleeding out from your attempt to
commit suicide rather than write Parabola code, causing you to slowly not
notice the headache anymore. Once they revive you at the hospital, and
you get back to writing code, you start going back up again.
 Of course, this is assuming you don't die. In which case, i guess you'd
call it "Half-Parabola", but i doubt you'd care at that point.

--Dan
>
> From: "Ken Seehof" <kens at sightreader.com>
>
>
> > Actually, COBOL has been a largely overlooked language.  It was once
> > one of the most important programming languages on the planet.  It would
> > be unfortunate to disregard its usefulness just because it is old.  The
> > Parrot
> > designers need to take this venerable language into account.  Among the
> > many features of COBOL that have been lost in recent years are line
> numbers
> > and columnar structure (the latter having been kept in some versions of
> > FORTRAN).  XML would allow the actual column arrangement to be decided
> > later in a style sheet.  Maybe something like this:
> >
> > <WORK-AREAS column=01>
> > <ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS column=05  heading=PIC=X(3) VALUE='YES'.>
> > <IMPLEMENTATION column=08>
> > <for>
> >  <controlvariable>line</controlvariable>
> >  <iteratorlist>getlines</iteratorlist>
> >  <body>
> >  <statement>
> >  <print>line</print>
> >  </statement>
> >  </body>
> > </for>
> > </IMPLEMENTATION>
> > </WORK-AREAS>
> > <NO-MORE-RECORDS column=88 VALUE ='NO '>
> > ..
> >
> > We need to learn to combine the best of both the old and the new.
>
>
>
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