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Carl, I hear you. At this point, I'm not sure what is the best investment of my time. The "silver platter" or just have Claude (and me) learn the new xpl. I favor the latter, out of context. But already having myself scattered among a growing list of interesting things to do, probably I should stick with the "get it done inelegantly" approach. Our era is not just one of information overload but values overload. On CU vs. FOR, do I understand that your criticism is that FOR does what CU does but so much more? Wouldn't that still warrant replacing any XyWrite XPL-CU with XyScript-xpl FOR? (And by "syntactic sugar" you mean it was a more compact way of doing what we already did more verbosely in Xy 3+?) --Harry On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:15:41 +0000, Carl Distefano wrote: > Reply to note from harrybinswanger <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:45:07 -0400 > > Harry, > > > I'm having Claude attempt a translator for XyWrite's XPL to > > XyScript's xpl > > Good luck with that. There are many one-to-one correspondences, to be sure, but the really interesting part lies in the various directions in which "xpl" blazes new paths. So beware lest you chain yourself to a past that has ... passed you by. That said, your list is basically ok, with the glaring exception of "«CU» � FOR". CU is syntactic sugar for doing X, Y number of times. Yes, FOR does that, but much more: it can iterate over the characters in a string and the elements in an array, and do something *different* each time. Those elements can themselves be arrays; FOR can reach down into the elements of those subarrays. > > If you're dead set on having AI serve this up for you on a silver platter, I think your approach is all wrong. What you should do is have Claude learn two separate things: XPL and xpl. Then (and only then), let Claude figure out how to translate between the two. In a perfect world, Claude would advise you to learn a bit of xpl on your own. What you'd find is that it's now easier to do all sorts of things that XPL forced you to jump through hoops to do, not to mention the universe of things that XPL is simply unable to do. Up to you. > > -- > Carl Distefano > cld@xxxxxxxxxx > |