michaelo@tektronix.UUCP (Michael O'Hair) (06/13/85)
[ Bug lunch. ] I'm looking for information on SAIL and/or MAINSAIL. What I know (very little) about SAIL: ALGOL-based, designed to act as a host language for CODASYL, is based on the article in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, April '79. I would assume that there have been changes in the last 6 years. Some basic questions: Are they related? If so, in what way? What is/was their focus? Has it changed? Are there any books available? Are there any users, gurus, etc., out there? Michael O'Hair Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 500 Beaverton, OR 97077 M/S 50-709 1-503-627-6049 tektronix!michaelo
david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) (06/15/85)
In article <5433@tektronix.UUCP> michaelo@tektronix.UUCP (Michael O'Hair) writes: >What I know (very little) about SAIL: ALGOL-based, designed to >act as a host language for CODASYL, is based on the article in >the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, April '79. >I would assume that there have been changes in the last 6 years. There was a language I used on a DEC-10 by the same name that was developed at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Is this the same language? (It also stood for "Stare At It Later", but that's another story) -- --- David Herron --- ARPA-> ukma!david@ANL-MCS.ARPA or ukma!david<@ANL-MCS> --- or david%ukma.uucp@anl-mcs.arpa --- Or even anlams!ukma!david@ucbvax.arpa --- UUCP-> {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,oddjob}!anlams!ukma!david --- {ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!cbosgd!ukma!david "It's *Super*User* to the rescue!"
matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) (06/16/85)
michaelo@tektronix.UUCP (Michael O'Hair) writes: > >I'm looking for information on SAIL and/or MAINSAIL. > ... > Are they related? If so, in what way? > ... I played with SAIL a little on the DEC-20's here, and I have the manual for it. The extensions to a very algol-like language include: an enormous macro facility (compared to cpp) in-line assembly, if you want to risk it new data types ITEM and an associative store of ordered triples of ITEMs. There is a FOREACH statement and a function type MATCHING to search the associative store for triples satisfying certain conditions. Does MAINSAIL have the latter feature? I don't know. _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt