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- From: jgj@ssd.csd.harris.com (Jeff Jackson)
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- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
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- Date: 8 Sep 92 19:06:26 GMT
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- In-reply-to: blair@lll-crg.llnl.gov's message of 8 Sep 92 16:08:19 GMT
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- > Wrong. If your compiler uses ANY kind of table-driven parsing scheme, it is
- > next to impossible to allow programmer-defined operators.
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- Strange, I have yet to see a useful language that *didn't* allow you
- to add an arbitrary number of new prefix operators, that can take any
- number (or even varible numbers) of arguments. They are usually
- called functions, procedures, subroutines or something like that. :-)
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