[Coco] FOCAL upload

Manny manney at gmail.com
Sat Jan 1 08:35:03 EST 2011


On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 17:57 -0700, Willard Goosey wrote:
> FOCAL 0.1 has been uploaded to
> http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/os9/focal1.lzh
> 
> AFAIK the only issue this has involves ^C handling.  If you ^C while
> the interpeter is waiting for input, the ^C will kill it.  This is
> apparently because the C library freaks out when it finds a ^C in
> stdin.
> 
> Except, of course, for the limitations built into the language, which
> are significant, even crippling. ;-)
> 
> Willard

I find Focal interesting, to say the least.  I quite like the line
numbering system, it offers a good way to organize the program.  I'd
like to see a larger sample program for the language.  Maybe a small
game or something.

-M.





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