[Info-vax] Programming languages, was: Re: VMS documentation

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-03-19 13:29, abrsvc wrote:
> On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 11:30:57 PM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 3/18/2022 8:55 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>>> Now, sadly, here is where you actually prove Simon right.
>> Yes, quite sad ...
>>
>> :-)
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> Johnny had it correct.  I over generalized after telling Simon no to do just that.  Logical steps can and often are comprised of relationships.  I did not intend to mean just singular statement steps although that fits as well.  Steps can include object creation and use as well as the relationships of those objects.  The point I was trying to make (and somewhat failed...) is that syntax is not the key here.  AS others have stated, you can look up the specific syntax, but you cannot look up how to think.

Thanks for being open about criticism.
But you really should look at Prolog. It's not doing steps even in that 
more freer form you are trying to fall back to.
In the end, yes, any current Prolog will be doing steps under the hood, 
since it is after all running on a traditional computer. But the 
language itself is not meaningful to look at as a sequence of steps to 
be performed. And yes, any program is inherently parallel.

It's a very interesting language, and one that is very useful for some 
kind of problems, but horrible for others... But it's also a language a 
lot of people struggle a lot to understand.

   Johnny