Subject: Re: Is LISP dying?
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1999/07/14
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.forth
Message-ID: <7mh3k9$9jvue@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be> wrote:
+---------------
| M[UMPS] by example: operators
| http://www.jacquardsystems.com/Examples/operator.htm
+---------------

Thanks for the pointer!

+---------------
| M[UMPS] evaluates strictly from left to right, so that 1+1*2
| yields 4 and not 3.
+---------------

Well, what can I say?!?  FOCAL *was* inspired directly by MUMPS, yet
it *did* have operator precedence, for arithmetic exprs at least --
I remember coding that part of FOCAL-10 as direct transliteration
of the FOCAL/F code. There was a separate small data stack for
intermediate results. (And a FOCAL-in-C snarfed off the net some
time ago agrees, too.)

Oh, well...


-Rob

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