RPL/2

[JKB]

(12-26-2018 03:47 PM)pier4r Wrote:  For info the author of RPL/2 relased also the binaries for the raspi, so the procedure should be easier.
http://www.rpl2.net/telechargements.php

I can see there the binaries for amd64 and arm7vl, under a debian environment.

semi OT.

Warning, arm7vl is an old release. If I have time, I will rebuild an up to date RPL/2 release for Raspbian.

Quote:Myself in answer to "will the RPL die"?
"I second the hopefully. RPL is not so bad but it's a bit unpratical compared to other procedural languages."

Now while I still think it is not so practical for large programs, it now don't want it to die. Even just for the diversity of the approach that provides another point of view to program with. So much one can learn over time and so much preserved messages on the internet can show the evolution of a person viewpoint.

I develop RPL/2 not to emulate a calculator but to write very large programs. New RECORD type is added to obtain a direct access to data in very large tables by name. TABLE type was added a long time ago to directly access to data in a compound type by number. If RPL is not practical for large programs, RPL/2 contains some features that are missing in RPL and can be used to write large programs (process synchronization with threads [SPAWN] and child process [DETACH], mutexes, semaphores, compound types, external types and libraries, SQL connectors...).

For example, I have written a program to optimize very large salesman (space and time) problem with cartography in a PostgreSQL database on multi CPU sparc systems (112 CPU).

Best regards,

JKB