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- From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc,comp.arch,sci.math
- Subject: Re: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
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- Date: 4 Sep 92 14:40:56 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU's message of 4 Sep 92 08:06:00 GMT
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- In article ... fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
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- C++ allows you to overload existing operators, although to make compiler
- writer's jobs easier, it does not allow you to introduce new operators.
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- Make that ``trivially easier''. So far as I am able to tell, the difficulty of
- allowing the user to add new operator definitions is rather close to zero, so
- long as this is taken into account *before* designing the language and
- compiler. (C++ has the problem of trying to incorporate the lexical structure
- of C.)
-
- [I've attempted to divert followups to comp.lang.misc. If I've screwed it,
- could other repliers please take my intentions into account? It doesn't seem to
- have much to do with fortran, edu, or match now, and I'm dubious about the
- architectural connection.]
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- Regards, | Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, | MIT
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