Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!USU.BITNET!SLMYQ From: SLMYQ@USU.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Macro languages Message-ID: <8805120222.AA06835@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 12 May 88 02:21:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 21 Has anyone read that special issue of BYTE magazine (sorry, can't remember the date) which is devoted to software? There's an article in it by Bill Gates about macro languages. Very good. Say, ya think the Amiga could beat the IBM to standardizing macro languages? I don't want to start a big discussion right now (please wait 'till we've standardized IPC), but it's something to think about. If you missed that issue, it's about all the many different macro languages used by different programs. If we could create one standard language which can span applications through IPC, with certain commands which are application-dependent, things would be MUCH nicer. He was also talking about rather than creating a special macro language which would be standard, making a speciall "virtual processor" which would process simple commands, which would be compiled or interpreted from more complex macro languages. That way, the beginners could have a BASIC-like language, the hackers could have C, the brains could have Pascal,... Bryan Ford (SLMYQ@USU.BITNET)