Re: New XPL Instruction Manual at XyWWWeb

[Patrick Cox pdcox@xxxxxxxx]

Let me add my sincere thanks as well. I
suspect I'll never use most of the hard-core
XPL stuff, but I figure that having it available
may attract other users and keep the XyCult
alive. It would be nice if the program achieved
some sort of larger back-door open source
status.

Patrick

-----Original Message-----
>From: Russ Urquhart 
>Sent: Jan 24, 2006 4:07 PM
>To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: New XPL Instruction Manual at XyWWWeb
>
>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