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Date:	Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:55:32 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Open Source Object Rexx

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Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
>
> Do I now find myself among the ranks of . . . the Republican
> Party? . . . How do I return to moral behavior?

Careful, they'll send you to Guantanamo.

> Rational and transcendental. However defined they fall
> into the real of "real" or "imaginary" numbers somehow
> expressible as variable precision, fixed decimal form.

Darn it, Lynn, you're supposed to address the issue, not play with the
words. Otherwise, you're simply passing the "data type" issue off to
the specification processor where it still has to be handled.

Where is your fuzzy logic data type? Where is your exponential data
type? Of course everything can be mapped to memory bits, but that's
low-level -- and you keep proselytizing about high-level. You're
building 18-wheeler bodies with a 4-wheel undercarriage if you don't
allow for THE DATA TYPES NECESSARY TO RESOLVE A PROBLEM.

> I have
> not offered the incomplete world of "int" and "float", but that
> of fully expressible decimal and binary arithmetic, of "real"
> numbers. Due to the convenience of the APL operator set I
> offer them in any base-x numbering system, allowing "mixed"
> expressions of unlimited variety.

And Henry Ford built his cars "in any color, so long as it's black".
You're being a lot more restrictive than you realize. Decimal and
binary are not enough.

> that's the
> beauty of a self-defining specification language: you can set
> your own limits and extend them at will: self-defining means
> self-extensible. One language. One source. All applications.
> One tool.

I keep asking for examples and you never give one. Show me how to
define a new data type.

> I hope I've gotten the commandments back up to ten.

I hope you'll give me some examples.

- Peter

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