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Lightweight Languages

Posted by timothy on from the just-enough-to-say-hello dept.

Denise writes: "'What happens if you get a bunch of academic computer scientists and implementors of languages such as Perl, Python, Smalltalk and Curl, and lock them into a room for a day? Bringing together the academic and commercial sides of language design and implementation was the interesting premise behind last weekend's Lightweight Languages Workshop, LL1, at the AI Lab at MIT.' Simon Cozens report, on perl.com, says it wasn't the flame fest you might have imagined."

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  1. Lightweight Languages - easy by snatchitup · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ebonics for Computers

    For loops shortened to Fo loops.
    Escape sequences shortened to Exape's.
    IF ... THEN'a and DO/LOOP WHILE/UNTIL's
    combined and shotened to:

    If'n When da mudda fudda is done, then....

    All variables, scope, etc. are combined into 1 variable. X ... the unkown.