Path: text.usenetserver.com!out01b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pd7cy1no!pd7cy2no!shaw.ca!pd7urf1no.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.84.208.66 From: paul c User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: A Simple Notation References: <5GAji.92223$1i1.68633@pd7urf3no> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:53:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.59.144.75 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca X-Trace: pd7urf1no 1183819999 64.59.144.75 (Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:53:19 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:53:19 MDT Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.theory:165681 X-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:53:20 EDT (text.usenetserver.com) David Cressey wrote: > "paul c" wrote in message > news:5GAji.92223$1i1.68633@pd7urf3no... > >>David Cressey wrote: >>... >> > .. > If I think a little like Sussman, it's not entirely accidental. I > collaborated with Sussman and three others in the development of MDL, the > programming language, back in 1971. While I never became a truly > proficient MDL programmer, I did write a prototype dynamic loader for MDL > in MDL. It only took about 2 pages of code. > > My role in MDL would have given me an understanding of the data structures > more than of the workings of the rest of the language. I saw your name at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_programming_language I liked the application to fiction, made me think all programming languages are works of fiction that we pretend to believe. Whenever we aren't pretending, mysticism must be involved. p