From: "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...>
Date: 2009-02-26T07:20:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

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On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:02 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Actually it dates back to Algol. The people who designed it did it for
> a reason, but I can't remember what it was. I think it was to remind
> people that assignment was not equality, and the purists pronounce
>
> a := b

IIRC, that's similar to how the production is written in BNF, and made  
sense in the context of creating compilers. But really, this  
discussion is primarily about syntactic sugar. The whole point of a  
high level programming language is to enable to let people think as  
people do and translate those constructs into something that machines  
can process efficiently. Many people, myself included, don't have  
stack-based architectures and thus don't think well in RPN. So Forth  
might not be my language of first choice.

But in the end, any T-complete language should allow you to (or should  
I say "not prevent you from") do(ing) your job.
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