exlite04.zip
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Description by Publisher
v0.4b, which are geared towards programming productivity. With a
vocabulary or 372 words (most of which are functions) and an unusually
rich set of operators, eX is a very powerful language. eX Lite omits
132 of eX's numeric and string functions. Further power is provided by
the virtual computer interpreter's unusual capabilities. In addition to
the traditional program execution mode, an inter-active execution mode
is also available---and full de-bugging facilities are available in both
modes. Interactive programming is available in conjunction with
MS-DOS's EDIT, but programs may be created with any text editor or in
the inter-active mode. eX is easy to learn. Essentially a language of
`tasks' and `values' and tasks can be `stacked' to employ a single
program component, as in
print $x: = 'a string'
which is functionally equivalent to
$x: = 'a string'
print $x
Therefore, programs are simply a stream of instructions, there are
almost no rules, and you can write programs in almost any style you
would like. To give you a hint of eX's capabilities (which are not
requirements), eX may be thought of as object-oriented within the
intrinsic data classes `numeric' and `string' (although the terminology
is not correct), and many of eX's functions handle either data type.
All of its operators have string by string and string by numeric
capabilities comparable to their numeric by numeric operations. Some
language components can return string or numeric values, and some can
return both simultaneously - so a single occurance of an operator can
perform both numeric by numeric and string by string operations. BUT,
opportunites for writing simultaneous string and numeric data processing
code are few and the technique is not required; therefore, most eX
programs look pretty normal.
Special requriements: None.
Freeware. Uploaded by the author.
Ron Fish
rfish@atlantic.net
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