Guillaume Marcais <guslist / free.fr> writes:

> On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:47, Mark Wilson wrote:
>> 
>> On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 03:14 AM, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>> 
>> > [snip]
>> 
>> > As you can see, this analysis of COME FROM vs Observer, and the 
>> > features
>> > required to implement it, show that I have far too much free time.
>> > [snip]
>> 
>> I think somebody should tell Ryan that something _useful_ cannot be 
>> done in Ruby. ;-)
>> 
>> 
>
> I think he is riped enough to takle the great task of implementing
> esoteric languages in ruby (ook, available in RAA is an example). See
> http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric.
>
> The language Whenever for example execute a statement when it feels like
> it and the statements in a program are not executed in order. Wouldn't
> that be a great addition to ruby?
>
> Go for it, I sign up as a beta tester...
>
> Guillaume.

In addition, now that there's a GOTO statement, for symmetry, we need
the COMEFROM statement that was first implemented in the INTERCAL
language.  See here for details about this hallowed tradition:

  http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/intercal-man/home.html

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz / asfast.com