Re: Language documentation

[Eli Collins <address@hidden>]

You can add snobol to the list! Great file i/o as well. There are many
text munging languages besides Perl :)


On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs wrote:

>
>    Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:08:22 +0100
>    From: Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>
>    To: ll1-discuss@ai.mit.edu
>    Subject: Language documentation
>    ...
>
>    I know of no other single language where text file munging is described
>    in the first five chapters of the manual. ...
>
> Then you can't have looked very far.  I have checked
> three different manuals and tutorials for RPG (the
> Report Program Generator language) and all three are
> well into text (well, EBCDIC) file munging by Chapter 4.
> (Moreover, RPG has extensive support for expressing
> monetary values in pounds, shillings, and pence as
> well as US dollars.  What more could one ask for?)
>
> --Guy
>
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