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- From: ogd@selway.umt.edu (ozymandias G desiderata)
- Subject: Re: Q: What's your opinion?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.020144.4110@selway.umt.edu>
- Organization: University of Montana
- References: <1eab2mINNild@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov17.122020.6140@reed.edu> <1eattdINN9dc@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:01:44 GMT
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- In article <1eattdINN9dc@transfer.stratus.com> nick@sw.stratus.com (Nicolas Tamburri) writes:
- >Yerk, and its close relative Mops, are 2 Forth based OOLs. Don't let the names
- >scare you, they are fairly nice packages, and both trace their roots, (i.e.
- >they had to be renamed to avoid legal conflicts,) to the once commercially
- >available language Neon. They are available by ftp from oddjob.uchicago.edu,
- >with docs.
-
- Okay, here's something I've been curious about for a while. I
- downloaded MOPS when I saw it, and paged quickly through the manual,
- decided that it was very similar to Yerk, and filed it away on an
- archive disk somewhere (as my hard drive is crammed to the rafters).
- What, exactly are the differences between Yerk and MOPS? The manual
- sorta said, but it mostly seemed to be identical to the Yerk manual.
- BTW, I agree that Yerk is a very flexible and deceptively
- simple OOL. I get this disconcerting feeling (just like when I'm using
- SmallTalk) that I'm not really doing any development at all.
-
- > /nt
-
- ozymandias G desiderata
- (ogd@selway.umt.edu)
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