Re: Next generation COBOL?

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:47:38 +0100, "Herwig Huener"
<Herwig.Huener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>One of those problems is not too far away: grammars with a
>lookahead of plus infinity - that means, that a compiler needs to know the
>complete program-text in order to make any sense of even the first symbol.

I used a language on the Atari 800 called Action!. It was designed
so that the last command in a program was the program, executing code
already parsed out before.

This type of design is useful in interpreted languages beyond design
philosophy.

I always enjoyed Forth for this philosophy.

But with compiled languages, it doesn't really matter where the code
is - but I like having all the code in one place where I can find it,
which doesn't seem to be the style anymore.
.

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