Re: New XPL Instruction Manual at XyWWWeb

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Robert,

Thanks for the wonderful work of bringing this important document to
a form for all of us.
Great work!


On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> Many people do find XPL to be "prickly", although I attribute that more
> to its being sui generis -- unlike any other commonly-used language -- and not
> because it is inherently difficult. Because it isn't. It's incredibly
> logical, and quite simple really.

The little of the language that I have used, I wouldn't say the
language is necessarily ugly. I think there is an elegance to it. It
kind of reminds of various assembly language op codes that I have
used in the past
.
(I wonder, when Dave designed it, if, internally, there isn't some
sort of mapping of the XPL commands to the PC assembly op codes?)
Just a thought.

Thanks again.

Russ