Re: Event based language, does it exist?

Per Olesen <polesen@nordija.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to find a language which is based solely on events, but I
> do not know if it exists. What I do know is, that there is a whole lot
> of languages out there, so it should be strange if there isn't an
> event based one :-)


I wrote a compiler for one that never went into production because the
manager for the project decided that a recursive descent compiler
(this was layered on top of Forth, for heavens sake, so what else
would you use?) wasn't good enough and decided it was more fun being
the software guy than the manager... so the project languished for 6
months while he wrote a YACC parser and code to convert the YACC
skeleton and code tables from C to Forth so it'd run on top of our
hardware... then it got tanked... no, I'm not bitter. Much. Any more.


There were no loops... not even counted loops... any repetition was
handled by triggering events.


This was over 15 years ago, the actual details of the language seem to
have been garbage-collected.


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