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Date:	Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:54:46 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Re: Warpstock 2003 Presentation

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Robert Blair wrote:
>
> > Lynn: How will you cohesively bring PL/I and Prolog
> > together in one HLL? I have only a cursory understanding
> > of Prolog, but nevertheless I don't see a full overlap.
>
> Why do you want full overlap? Take what is best from each
> and use that.

I'm not sure that's possible. Can PL/I be extended to fully encompass a
Prolog style of code?

> > Do you use PL/I-ish statements written in a text editor,
> > or do you instead open a boilerplate match-merge template,
> > import the file formats for the two source files, click
> > on the fields to be matched, and let the PI do the rest?
>
> Either way, it is up to the programmer.

The programmer can choose? Then why not also allow English? If it's up
to the programmer, why not allow the option of writing the solution
method in English?

> > what exactly is does the new PI encompass
>
> It generates the executable.

I thought the compiler did that. I thought the Programmer's Interface
was how the coder "managed" the source code, and the executable was
generated only when the coder told the compiler to run. It's possible
to integrate the two so the code is regenerated with every line change
-- is this what you want?

> > [concerning the PI] is it, or is it not, a front-end
> > for generating a line-by-line source code file?
>
> It does not generate source code, that is what the
> programmer does.

Lynn: Will your HLL include a definition for a screen design tool?

- Peter

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