Hello,
Wasn't SNOBOL written in Fortran?
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Cheers!
Dan Nagle
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:01 +0800, Stuart Midgley
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>yes. Basically you provide it with an open file descriptor and it
>reads from it... Alternative, I can allow people to pass in individual
>lines from stdin or from a character string array.\
>
>Also, being written in fortran, I can make it do what I want... and
>other fortran users can change/add functionality.
>
>Stu.
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>On 12/02/2004, at 10:50, David Vowles wrote:
>
>> There are many script languages around with particular advantages and
>> disadvantages. They are particularly useful as "glue" between
>> applications, generating configuration files etc.
>>
>> One application of such languages that I consider highly desirable is
>> their ability to be embedded in an application so that the application
>> becomes programmable by the end-user (without the need for additional
>> compilation)
>>
>> As I understand it a difficulty with most of the scripting languages
>> that are popular today (e.g. Perl, Python, TCL) is the extra difficulty
>> involved in embedding them in Fortran programs. This is partly due, I
>> understand??, to the fact that the scripting languages are typically
>> written in C and so interoperability issues become significant.
>>
>> So my question: Is the Midgley scripting-language easily "embeddable"
>> in
>> a Fortran application?
>>
>> David.
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