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by watergatorman 6y ago
Some random thoughts: I appreciate the original simplicity of K & R, "The C Programming Language", 2nd Edition, and the relatively simple semantics of ANSI C89/ISO C90 compared to C99 and later. You don't need comple
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by watergatorman 7y ago
I have compared both Modula-2 and Oberon-2 to Go, but have not compared Active Oberon to Go. This was for purposes of creating a top-down, predictive, recursive descent parser for Go. I am curious on how Go is being parsed. LR, LL, or ? I a
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by watergatorman 7y ago
IMHO, Oberon-2 WithStmt has much cleaner syntax than Go TypeSwitchStmt. WithStmt is easier to parse, more general and it doesn't need the Primary "." "(" "type" ")" at the beginning which appears
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by watergatorman 7y ago
Try this, it is highly recommended: "C Programming: A Modern Approach," 2nd Edition by K. N. King is selling for 111 USD, covering C89/C99 but the First Edition, covering C89 is only 60 USD But if you want his "Modula-2
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by watergatorman 7y ago
You possibly can use command-line redirection but whether OBNC can read directly from console output, I am not sure.
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by watergatorman 7y ago
If I use module Out to write to STDOUT, is there a way for OBNC Oberon to Read the contents in that console window, so it can be treated as input.
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by watergatorman 7y ago
You don't, at least if the syntax/semantics is as complex as Python! Recommendation: Find a subset grammar for Python, by doing a search on computer science classes on university sites. You will find the published Python subset gr
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by watergatorman 7y ago
Yes, it displays correctly in HN. Now I can submit some content that best uses UpArrow for synthesized attribute in AG. Thank you HN for supporting Unicode!
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Test of HN to See If This Displays Unicode 1F801 (UpArrow)
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by watergatorman 7y ago
Interesting article. There is both left and right recursion in the definition of <number>, but this EBNF (Wirth notation) uses iteration only: number = digit { digit } [ "." digit { digit } ] .
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by watergatorman 7y ago
Josh Lospinoso, the author of this blog, has now corrected this to read "pointer to const int" C declaration syntax confounds even the experts. I highly recommend this article to all interested in C and C++, and programming langu
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by watergatorman 7y ago
"... const int* x_ptr_3 = &x; // (3) ... Finally, we see the preferred approach, which is taking a const pointer (3)" Not a const pointer, but a pointer to const int.
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by watergatorman 7y ago
Rust popular? Tiobe language rankings for May 2019: Rust is ranked 34th at 0.335%, below Lisp and Prolog. Go is ranked 19th at 1.114%. C is ranked 2nd at 14.233% Rust does not have a stable, standard BNF grammar specification. The language
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by watergatorman 7y ago
C++ is a huge and complex language compared to C. [Compared size of the standard reference document for each.] C++ is complex to parse. Clang and Gcc use back-tracking to parse C++ and there can be long compilation times. Tiobe language ran
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by watergatorman 7y ago
Dijkstra's timeless advice. Also recommend: "On the Design of Programming Languages" N. Wirth CS-TR-73-403 "Hints on programming language design" C.A.R. Hoare "The Essence of Programming Languages" Niklaus
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by watergatorman 7y ago
Interview is dated March 13, 2018: Niklaus Wirth 1984 ACM Turing Award Recipient Interviewed by Elina Trichina March 13, 2018 Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
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by watergatorman 7y ago
Doesn't say what tool was used to do the syntax highlighting colorization. Or was it done by hand?
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by watergatorman 7y ago
A limited comparison of C, C++, Go, Rust: Go and C seem to have a large number of available software tools. Based on the "size" of the reference documentation alone, C and Go appear to be the simplest to learn for beginners. A beg
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by watergatorman 8y ago
Assume ASCII characters: ORD('a') - ORD ('A') = 32 IF ('A' <= ch) & (ch <= 'Z') THEN ch := CHR(ORD(ch) + 32) END
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by watergatorman 8y ago
You need to look at TUIs (Text User Interfaces).
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by watergatorman 8y ago
Answering my own question, Geany has "Sending text through custom commands" and ability to add custom commands via "Send Selection to->Set Custom Commands" But it looks like this just replaces the selected text so it
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by watergatorman 8y ago
I generally agree with Lucas' sentiments re GUIs and in his other article "In Praise of Plain Text." But I currently select portions of text with a mouse by highlighting it, and then execute programs that accept that selectio
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by watergatorman 8y ago
I am not taking sides, because today's Ford Co is not saddled with Henry Ford's controversies, and both MIT and Ford are large organizations. I don't know who is right, a jury might decide. There is an interesting movie, &quo
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by watergatorman 8y ago
I found a LALR grammar for Rust on GitHub, compatible with Bison. But it does not closely track the published Rust Grammar nor syntax rules in the Rust Reference. (See Rust-lang DOT org site.) Although perhaps a Rust grammar could be extrac
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by watergatorman 8y ago
I looked at the Rust site and their published grammar. It is VERY incomplete, missing entire productions. I cannot determine if the syntax of Rust is "better" than that of C. At least the ISO "C" std. organization publi
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by watergatorman 8y ago
The authors of the "debunking" study suggest that the use of specific (complex?) programming language features might account for a greater number of bugs. Too many uncontrolled factors (programmer's experience level with a gi
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by watergatorman 8y ago
See: Niklaus Wirth "On The Design of Programming Languages" Procedures of the IFIP Congress 74, pp. 386-393 <PLHistoryGoodDesign.PDF>
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by watergatorman 8y ago
See: "Hints on programming language design" by C.A.R. Hoare Report Number: CS-TR-73-403 Stanford University, Department of Computer Science <CS-TR-73-403.pdf> Simplicity, readability, and so much more.
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by watergatorman 8y ago
Embedded C++ (EC++) I know, Bjarne Stroustrup seems to hate EC++ and claims it is dead, but tell that to game developers and the NASA Curiosity Mars Rover. You can't tell that to Opportunity, which does appear dead, but Embedded C++ is
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by watergatorman 8y ago
There is only a single combined percentage for C/C++ and not a percentage for C and C++ separately. Just curious as I have never seen TIOBE or other sites lump those into a single category.

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