Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming languages

chris dollin <ehog.hedge@googlemail.com>
Sat, 9 Jun 2012 14:21:26 +0100

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From: chris dollin <ehog.hedge@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 14:21:26 +0100
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: design, history
Posted-Date: 09 Jun 2012 09:58:21 EDT

Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson said:


> Another point to make. Why do we assign from right to left? Is it in
> any way natural? What's wrong with
>
> a + b --> c "a plus b assigned to c"


Pop11 assignments run source-to-target as you write above
(using -> rather than -->), partly because of its use of
an open stack for expression evaluation.


Chris


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