crazy programming language thoughts

[Sean Ross]

"Ryan Lowe" <ryanlowe0 at msn.com> wrote in message
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> im not trying to change python. even a small change is a tough sell with
> this crowd ;-) i guess i should have labeled this off-topic. is there a
> forum that might be more appropriate?

I'm all for this kind of discussion. But, as to a more appropriate forum,
I think comp.lang.misc would be the place for this type of thing.

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>  i see no need to english-ify selecting a range of things from a
> list. id do something like:
>
>  get words in paragraphs[2 : 4]
>

I'd do something like

    paragraphs[2 to 4].words

myself.


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> SPARK, huh. never heard of it, ill check it out. thanks

Then you missed my earlier post to this thread: http://tinyurl.com/lnts

There is code at my site, listed in that posting, that used SPARK to make
a toy language based on the Python 1.5.2 grammar. It's not great, but you
may find it instructive (atleast insofar as what things not to do :)

You can prototype your language, work out the kinks, then consider
whether to reimplement in C, or what ever.

Good luck, and have fun.
Sean