Re: Languages From Hell -- your favorite one could walk again!

iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk
Thu, 29 Sep 1994 12:46:12 GMT

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From: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk
Keywords: design, comment
Organization: DOC Imperial College
References: 94-09-076 94-09-143
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 12:46:12 GMT

>>[suggestions for hideous old languages sought]


perl:


Version 4 anyway: the way in which assigning a parameter in a subroutine
to a local variable changes the way the parameter is passed from reference
to value. I cannot think of a simple way to compile a language where the
passing method cannot be determined until runtime


      Ian Moor
      iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk
[Doesn't sound any harder than Algol-60 call by name. -John]
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