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<LI><em>From</em>: "Travis S. Casey" <<A HREF="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:28:54 -0500 (CDT)</LI>
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Cynbe ru Taren wrote:
> In general, a conditional of some sort, and recursion, are the
> practical minimal set you're thinking of. Look at the languague which
> Scheme compiles down to after all macro expansion is done on something
> like the Guy Steele's Rabbit compiler, and you'll see more or less
> this.
Quite a few programming languages have managed without recursion, though,
by having iteration constructs -- e.g., Fortran and several BASICs.
Recursion can be fairly hard to implement, so depending on what you want
to use the language for, it might be easier to just have a GOTO statement
and/or a couple of specific iterators. (You can implement any sort of
iteration with GOTO, after all -- although if your programs are going to
be more than a page or two, they may get very hard to read.)
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00846" HREF="msg00846.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Properties of computer languages</A></strong>,
Joey Hess <a href="mailto:joey#kitenet,net">joey#kitenet,net</a>, Fri 18 Jun 1999, 00:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00856" HREF="msg00856.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Properties of computer languages</A></strong>,
Mik Clarke <a href="mailto:mikclrk#ibm,net">mikclrk#ibm,net</a>, Fri 18 Jun 1999, 20:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00833" HREF="msg00833.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Properties of computer languages</A></strong>,
David95037 <a href="mailto:David95037#aol,com">David95037#aol,com</a>, Thu 17 Jun 1999, 15:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00830" HREF="msg00830.html">[MUD-Dev] Properties of computer languages</A></strong>,
Cynbe ru Taren <a href="mailto:cynbe#muq,org">cynbe#muq,org</a>, Thu 17 Jun 1999, 15:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00848" HREF="msg00848.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Properties of computer languages</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Fri 18 Jun 1999, 01:40 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00851" HREF="msg00851.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Properties of computer languages</A></strong>,
David95037 <a href="mailto:David95037#aol,com">David95037#aol,com</a>, Fri 18 Jun 1999, 14:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00859" HREF="msg00859.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Properties of computer languages</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Sat 19 Jun 1999, 03:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00861" HREF="msg00861.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Properties of computer languages</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Sat 19 Jun 1999, 18:00 GMT
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