dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (06/22/84)
Hi, I am looking for an interactive language which is available to universities in source form for a low price. It should be reasonably efficient, and have fairly good numerical computational expressions and performance. I have a version of BASIC, the System 3/5 BS, and several versions of LOGO and LISP. Are there better one available ? I have heard of an interactive PASCAL (perhaps TURBO PASCAL) - what is the story one that one ? Any others ? I guess FORTH should be considered, but the syntax seems awful and the file management primitive. However its concept of building blocks (words) and threaded execution and its efficiency are virtues I'm looking for. An interactive C would be nice. I would also like for the language to be reasonably easy to add to, as I probably will want to add features and structures to it to support some real-time process control. Ideally the language should mesh well with multitasking and parallel processing. How about this Q'Nial language ? Thanks. Cheers, Dan Ts'o ...cmcl2!rna!dan P.S. I have been hacking the System 3/5 BS along these lines with some success. I have include APL-like vectors and fixed up many bugs in BS. If anyone is interested in the new BS, let me know. Its virtues are that its interactive, fast, small, C-like, written in C and available in source form.