Quoting Steve Gray <stevebg@adelphia.net>:
..... When I was later forced (due to no more> PDP-10's being available) to work in C, it was a great comedown and a big step backwards. TRIP perhaps most resembles the Mathematica environment, without all the math and without lots of the other features of Mma. .....
I know that feeling. Some six years creating a LISP processor down the drain when IBM switched over from 7090 to 360. Nowadays I could have salvaged the code, even with something like Mathematica(TM), but back then I was barely beginning to write something resembling a symbol manipulation program, and nobody else really had anything either. C and FORTRAN weren't anywhere near perfect, but thay had (and still pretty much have) the great advantage of universality (not Turing's, just that everybody and everywhere, you could find one), especially if one avoided any and all "advanced" features. Is there anyone who doesn't rember (or have participated in) the flame wars, whether FORTRAN was better than Algol? Or whatsoever other pair? One of the great shortcomings of all these languages was the fact that you couldn't stop in the middle of something to compile and execute some source code that you had just created. Sounds like this TRIP might have done just that. - hvm ------------------------------------------------- www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunicándonos