S-Lang Programmer's Library

Posted by vmorgulis on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @04:15PM
from the jedsoft.org dept.

http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/

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Re:S-Lang Programmer's Library by jedisct1 on Thursday March 03, 2016 @06:14AM (#11216151)

I'm still using Jed as my primary editor.

S-Lang is great (your mileage may vary, but Emacs-LISP gives me headaches).

Jed is slick and fast, and I always miss the way it auto-indents code in other text editors.

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Re:S-Lang Programmer's Library by n00b101 on Thursday March 03, 2016 @07:11AM (#11216337)

If I'm not mistaken, Goldman Sachs' proprietary programming language is also called "S-Lang" (securities language). I take it that this is not the same thing.

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Re:S-Lang Programmer's Library by stray on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @04:33PM (#11213193)

That's a blast from the past!

Iirc, that was hot around the same time as SIOD (scheme in one defun) and tcl.

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Re:S-Lang Programmer's Library by vmorgulis on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @05:26PM (#11213539)

Yes :-)

I found that in Lynx ang Gopher+ source code.

The project is still active.

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Re:S-Lang Programmer's Library by zimpenfish on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:21AM (#11216647)

It being in Lynx is my fault (IIRC). Was a lot easier to get coloured screen output than with ncurses back in the dark ages.

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Re:S-Lang Programmer's Library by mikaelj on Thursday March 03, 2016 @06:01AM (#11216107)

Terrible choice in name.

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Re:S-Lang Programmer's Library by stevehiehn on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:09AM (#11216590)

I assumed the article was about the statistical language S

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