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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq