in reply to Re^3: Going back in time...
in thread Going back in time...

When I started working commercially, my assembly language microcontroller programs ended up with read-eval-print loops and in some cases even a crude function-definition capability (more like shell scripting than true language extension) with an eval+apply function that checked for user-defined command scripts before going into its primitive list.

Why do I think FORTH immediately? Ah - we talked about that already :-)

(Some say that Forth is to assembly what Perl is to C)

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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Re^5: Going back in time...
by samizdat (Vicar) on Jul 16, 2007 at 18:48 UTC
    I'd agree with that last link's premise. Stack manipulation functions should precede meta-programming functions, definitely... :D

    Don Wilde
    "There's more than one level to any answer."