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   The Great American Programming Language

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 18th, 2002 @ 10:30pm

   
   

   Good to see that even seasoned billionaires aren't immune from the desire to implement DWIM for the rest of us, and remove the need for all those pesky programmers, SEI level-5, CASE, IDEs, James Martin, the 5th generation project, functional languages, provably correct programs, and all that nonsense.

   "When someone says 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,' give him a lollipop."
       -- CMU jokes.txt, circa 1984

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   just noticed the intentional

   

   Adam Barr, Sep 19th, 2002 @ 12:08pm

   
   

   The intentional code interpreter is supposed to pick out the comment saying that the code is going to print "Hello, world!". Unfortunately the comment is delimited wrong, */ to /* instead of the other way around. So both the intentional code example and the C example have bugs. But I guess the whiz-bang intentional code interpreter would figure that out...it's a two step process, first figure out that the programmer *intended* to put a comment, then figure out from the comment what the code *intended* to do.

   Or you could copy "Hello, world!" out of K&R, with no comments.

   - adam

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