Subj : Re: year 11 maths survey
To   : comp.programming
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 09:39 am

gswork@mailcity.com said:

> 
> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>
>> Mists of time and all that, but it had a lot of ampersands in it. For
>> example, if you wanted to shove a string onto "stdin", in preparation for
>> running a program, you could do something like:
>>
>> &STACK 12345
> 
> was it the fore runner to REXX, IBM EXEC perhaps?

It was certainly an IBM language. I don't know whether it was the forerunner 
to REXX, since I don't know REXX.

> programming is in this regard *not* like riding a bicycle!

Perhaps it would be popular with fish, then. (If you understand this, you 
will understand it. If you don't, someone might explain it but it won't be 
me.)

> (actualy, in most regards its not like riding a bicycle!)

Then it's *ideal* for fish!

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Richard Heathfield
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