Hi Imre,

I like how polite this language is :-) There are imperative languages,
functional languages, object-oriented languages, but I think this is the
first "ask-politely" language that I have seen!

Sean

At 08:07 AM 12/23/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I must disagree due to intended languages as COBOL or FORTRAN. They are
>absolutely inappropriate for that project. I would suggest INTERCAL, as a
>superior language for that choice. As illustration, I insert here a small
>random number generator taken from the Intercal distribution package.
>
>        DO (1900) NEXT
>        DO READ OUT .1
>        PLEASE GIVE UP
>(1900)  DO STASH .2 + .3
>        DO .3 <- #65535
>        DO (1903) NEXT
>(1903)  PLEASE FORGET #1
>        DO .2 <- #0
>        PLEASE %50 IGNORE .2
>        DO .2 <- #1
>        PLEASE REMEMBER .2
>        DO .1 <- !1$.2'~"#65535$#1"
>        DO .3 <- .3~#65534
>        DO (1902) NEXT
>        DO (1903) NEXT
>(1902)  DO (1904) NEXT
>        DO RETRIEVE .2 + .3
>        DO FORGET #1
>        PLEASE RESUME #1
>(1904)  PLEASE RESUME '?"!3~.3'~#1"$#1'~#3
>
>As one can see, it gives the most clearest structure and such way due to
>the very short project deadline this is the once tool you can use.
>
>And a remark: there is no Intercal compiler for PIC, though. But it is
>absolutely no problem, as Intercal produces C output and the compilation
>can be done by the (almost) free compiler of HiTech or whatever you
>choose.
>
>Regards and merry Xmas:
>
>Imre
>
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