tony@rlgvax.UUCP (Tony Stuart) (03/13/88)
Max, The Programming Language, Version 1.00, is finally available. Max is based on the idea that a programming language does not need to be complicated to be powerful. It has a simple syntax and offers many of the features of C and Lisp. The language is fully extensible. Max comes with an integrated development environment called MaxEdit. Max and MaxEdit support multiple windows, both tiled (adjacent) and piled (overlapping). Using MaxEdit it is possible to write programs in one window and enter commands in another window. The basic lexical unit in Max is the function. There is a large library of builtin functions and programs are written by creating user defined functions. The builtin function library includes a variety of string, list, array and pattern matching functions. There are also numerous flow of control functions such as case, do, for, if, until, while, etc. New flow of control functions can be defined as well. The executables and documentation for Max may be found in comp.binaries.ibm.pc as a uuencoded and arc'd series of files. They may be freely copied and distributed for noncommercial purposes. I developed Max in my spare time over the last year. Give it a try and tell me what you think of it. This is the first of eight parts. Strip off all the non-uuencoded text of each of the parts. The line containing "begin" in the first part should not be stripped. Combine the parts together into one file. Use uudecode to decode the file and arc or arc-e to un-arc it. The following files are in the archive: Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC ============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ==== BLOCK.MAX 496 Crunched 52% 241 12 Mar 88 3:02p 4075 CONFIG.MAX 1850 Crunched 39% 1136 12 Mar 88 3:02p 7DC4 DETAIL1.DOC 26108 Crunched 55% 11811 12 Mar 88 3:02p 9239 DETAIL2.DOC 29510 Crunched 53% 14126 12 Mar 88 3:02p BB18 INTRO.DOC 11825 Crunched 52% 5711 12 Mar 88 3:02p E423 MAX.EXE 152661 Crunched 30% 107021 12 Mar 88 3:02p 772D MAXEDIT.DOC 10055 Crunched 49% 5130 12 Mar 88 3:02p F71E MAXEDIT.EXE 40521 Crunched 32% 27819 12 Mar 88 3:02p 1D55 MAXTI.EXE 118009 Crunched 28% 85945 12 Mar 88 3:02p D23E SAMPLE.MAX 3676 Crunched 53% 1752 12 Mar 88 3:02p 32BC SUMMARY.DOC 7344 Crunched 51% 3644 12 Mar 88 3:02p 1F9B TUTOR.DOC 13381 Crunched 52% 6456 12 Mar 88 3:02p 0299 WINDEF.MAX 861 Crunched 54% 404 12 Mar 88 3:02p 727C WINDOW.MAX 2579 Crunched 50% 1314 12 Mar 88 3:02p FEAB ==== ======== ==== ======== Total 14 418876 35% 272510 -- Anthony F. Stuart, {uunet|sundc)!rlgvax!tony CCI, 11490 Commerce Park Drive, Reston, VA 22091