Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Jun 2005 12:26 UTC
For Linux users, HLA is a strong programming tool that allows them to create powerful programs on a variety of different levels. As HLA becomes more feature-rich, additional applications will be written using HLA under Linux. With HLA and Linux, programmers can develop new and exciting applications anyone can use. Read more.
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> Now as to why HLA doesn't support the C escape sequences,
> well, this isn't necessary in *assembly language*.
Well it isn't *necessary* in C too: with the preprocessor and string concatenation, you can write:
#define nl "13"
printf("toto" nl);
instead of "toton", but apparently K&R thought that the escape sequence was a good idea, and I agree with them: relying on string concatenation to build basic strings isn't "nice".
I'm not sure I understand your justification to use a different escape character, if you send a string 'toton' to a C program, it will see 't','o','t','o',<the ASCII value of n'>,0 and it will work!
No need to have 't','o','t','o','','n',0 passed to the C program!
And about:
> what so good about [cout << "text" << endl]?
I would say: nothing! As shown by the fact that no language after C++ have reused this poor syntax, prooving that this was really not a good idea.
Anyway, you can defend your syntax choice anyway you want, it still remains that quite a few people here found it not very pretty.
Maybe we're too tainted by C, but as the C/Java/C++ number of users is much, much more bigger than the Pascal/Ada's, I have some doubt about HLA success..