From: ulric AT evelin DOT edu DOT stockholm DOT se (Ulric Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: Scripting language library
Date: 12 Dec 1997 21:38:28 GMT
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In article <34910cce DOT 1337533 AT news DOT xs4all DOT nl>,
Hans Bezemer <hansoft AT geocities DOT com> wrote:
>On 12 Dec 1997 05:48:59 GMT, "Jack Klein" <jackklein AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> wrote:
>
>>2.  Since this is a group about programming in standard C, and
>>linking to other languages is outside the standard, why post it
>>here?
>Simply because this is a library, written in C, to be used with C. That is why
>it was developed in the first place. It is even written in the most standard C
>you can imagine. It is used on a large number of platforms. But the other point
>you put makes it quite interesting from a philosophical point of view. Must a
>scripting language for C be standard C (like SALT for Telix)? Personally, I
>don't think the standard applies to the scripting language, only to the code
>that implements the scripting language.

I found your description intriguing - I'm looking for a tiny Forth
to use as a scripting language - so I took a look at your program.

The first thing I came across was a file called easyc.h, containing
things like:

#define begin {              /* like Pascal */
#define end   }              /* like Pascal */

In horror I grepped the .c files to see if this was actually used
anywhere. You bet. The first file (4th.c) I looked into contained:

#ifdef ANSI_C
  void main (int argc, char **argv)
#else
  void main (argc, argv) int argc; char **argv;
#endif

begin

And so on. Here is more entertaining statistics:

evelin:~/4th/source$ grep "void main" *.c | wc  
     25     185    1208

Any claim that this is the most standard C imaginable is clearly
exaggerated.


Ulric
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 but ISO disagrees with all three of us and says to-mah-to."