[nzlug] Whats The differance between

[Bruce Clement]

Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 October 2006 15:32, Bruce Clement wrote:
>   
>> The "portable assembler" concept isn't unique, for example the Intercal
>> compiler produces C as its output
>>     
> I'm at once impressed and in disbelief that you'd bring INTERCAL into a 
> serious language discussion :)
>
>   
Why not? It's a serious language, just like Lisp. They seriously say
"there are alternate designs; be thankful that mainstream languages
chose another one".

> There's a lecturer at uni here who wrote OO extensions to it. However, they 
> were apparently not added to the standard.
>
>   
They might have been readable. A big mistake when dealing with the
Intercal community.


Bruce