Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!sambo From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln) Newsgroups: net.lang,net.lang.f77,net.lang.mod2 Subject: A new language called micro-ln Message-ID: <2347@ukma.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 21:35:58 EST Article-I.D.: ukma.2347 Posted: Thu Oct 31 21:35:58 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:06:34 EST Followup-To: net.lang Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 23 Keywords: IEEE floating-point standard, modula-2, C Xref: watmath net.lang:1913 net.lang.f77:407 net.lang.mod2:273 I have designed a language called micro-ln as part of my thesis. This language makes available all the facilities of the IEEE standard for binary floating-point arithmetic, including precision and rounding modes, and exception handling. It borrows features from the C language and Modula-2. I have available a reference manual, which is 28 pages long when processed with troff. I would appreciate finding out what opinions you might have about this language. If you are interested in taking a look at the manual, let me know. I don't know if it would be appropriate to post the reference manual on the net. If you think I should, let me know. Finally, I am writing a compiler for the language. The target machine for the compiler will be the IBM PC, since it has a way of adding a floating-point processor that conforms quite closely to the IEEE stan- dard. I don't think I can finish the compiler before finishing the the- sis, but if there is a lot of genuine interest in the language, this will provide me greater motivation to get the compiler done. -- Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 ARPA: ukma!sambo<@ANL-MCS>, or sambo%ukma.uucp@anl-mcs.arpa, or even anlams!ukma!sambo@ucbvax.arpa UUCP: {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,oddjob}!anlams!ukma!sambo, or cbosgd!ukma!sambo "Micro-ln is great, if only people would start using it."