Ever Heard About the LINC Programming Language?


LOOK.UP; EVERY CUST
: Read in every customer
: Next find the customer’s total deposits.
DETERMINE; TOTAL DEPOSITS AMOUNT (CUST.CUSTOMER)
: Calculate the interest due.
MULTIPLY; CUST.INTEREST GLB.TOTAL
SD; SD-INTEREST (INTEREST)
: Now create the interest deposit for the customer
AUTO.ENTRY; DEPOS
AUTO; CUST.CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
AUTO; GLB.TOTAL AMOUNT
AUTO; SD-INTEREST NARRATION
AUTO; WRITE&CLEAR
...
...
: Create the other side of the entry.
AUTO.ENTRY; JRNL
AUTO; SD-INTEREST LEDGER
AUTO; GLB.TOTAL AMOUNT
AUTO; CONTRA AMOUNT
AUTO; WRITE&CLEAR
: If the customer is unemployed, the interest
: amount must also be sent to the EMPLOY System.
DO.WHEN; CUST.ETYPE=(N)
MOVE; (EMPLOYDB) GLB.DESTINATION
AUTO.ENTRY; DEPOS
AUTO; CUST.CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
AUTO; GLB.TOTAL AMOUNT
AUTO; SD-INTEREST NARRATION
AUTO; WRITE&CLEAR
MOVE; GLB.SELF GLB.DESTINATION
END;
END


I think I'd actually heard of it before, but never seriously read up on it. From the wikipedia page, I'm less than impressed so far, but this is just my gut reaction.

Part of the reason for the introduction of this new terminology was to make the system easier for programmers. It isolated them from a lot of the underlying technology.

Gee, thanks. I hate that pesky technology.

>>2

Then you have to completely abandon using any abstractions. Especially these stupid lambdas and macros. Do everything machine code binary, then rip every key from your keyboard, besides 0 and 1, because everything higher-level (even hexadecimals) would be isolation from bare metal.

>>3

No you don't. Low floor, high ceiling is what Lisp, Smalltalk and Forth are (were) all about.

>>4
Were?

>>5

All I meant was that e.g. my favorite Smalltalk implementation does not run on an ISA specifically microcoded for Smalltalk anymore and that I have to run Symbolics Genera on VLM on QEMU on some old as heck Debian ;)

>>6

;)

huh

>>7

That's a "smiley emoticon" indicating a wink. Smiley emoticons were invented by a well known Lisp programmer Scott Fahlman.

[quote]19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E. Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

:-(
[/quote]

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm

>>8
Lisp is shit.

If it ain't lisp, it's crap

If it ain't shit, it's crap.

I ARE ANDRU