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Date:	Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:52:39 -0700
From:	"Gregory W. Smith" <gsmith@well.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-programming@scoug.com" > scoug-programming@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: The language end goal

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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:42:43 -0700, Lynn H. Maxson wrote:

>I found the discussions in yesterday's (Saturday, October 21,
>2006) SCOUG meeting interesting. I think they deserve a larger
>audience, one represented by this mailing list. I would hope
>more of the discussions there would appear here.

<..... Snip .......>

>Basically we have two machine architectures in place today,
>CISC and RISC. A "suitable" HLL language should allow an
>equivalency between the set of instructions of a RISC
>equivalent to a single one of the CISC. That would indicate
>that we can have three levels, two machine-dependent (RISC
>and CISC) and one machine-independent (logical), with at
>least one-to-one equivalents in a single HLL.

And this relates to OS/2 in what way?? How many machines with
different RISC instruction sets are we using to run our OS/2
Developers' Assistant?

<..... Another Big Snip .......>

>The characteristic of a "universal" specification language,
>basically our goal, includes the ability to specify itself. That
>ability includes that to extend itself. We have such a
>universal specification language: formal logic. We need to
>incorporate it into a usable form for programming.
>
>SL/I.

OK OK OK... I'm sold. Now please tell me what I need to know so I
can get started with Bob's sample code. I just need to know WHICH SL/I
compiler for OS/2 I will need, where to get it, and how to set up my
build environment.

And then, maybe..... Just maybe... Some kind of discussion about
what the Developers' Assistant should look like to the programmer. One,
two, three, twenty-five different windows??? Maybe one window with
seven panes??? Toolbar buttons along the left side and top???? Or maybe
toolbar buttons in a floating palette???? No toolbars at all?? Light
pastels for syntax highlighting? (Like EPM--find what you have
searched for with that pastel blue circle around it.) Or really bold
colors for syntax highlighting? Magenta and yellow is a real hot color
combination.

-- Greg
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