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On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
Perl? But... but... the curly braces and semi-colons...!
So... BASIC. I did once produce a version of my BASIC interpreter that I
could use as a CGI back-end....
Or Prolog.
csh scripts?
Pascal... (although there is still the ; issue).
imp77. No {}, no ; It's a high-level structured language. You've probably
never heard of it.. (went into use in 1977 oddly enough) Hello world in
imp77:
%begin
Print String ("Hello World")
Newline
%end
Keywords are underlined or prefixed with a %. Variable and function names
can have spaces in them too. Has some intersting constructs too:
a = 7 %unless b = 5
You'll need to resurect the compiler though, but I did resurect it last
year for a modern Debian... Could probably again...
Actually, thinking about it now, I have just the thing for you too:
Ruby.
Gordon
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