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1. I've been reading the docs on xpl and I love it. It reminds me of (dare I say it!) XyBasic. 2. Your way of getting the U2 functionality is superior, but requires work from me. Too much, I think. But my mind is not closed on this. Cxpl (for Carl xpl)? Yeah that falls trippingly off the tongue! Would require only a CH /XPL/Cxpl/ on your docs!
3. Name. I'm instructing all my delegates to vote for Cxpl (for Carl's XPL). It falls trippingly off the tongue, and does justice. Regards, Harry On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:48:04 +0000, Carl Distefano wrote: > Reply to note from harrybinswanger <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:51:18 -0400 > > Harry, > > > "What you should do is have Claude learn two separate things: XPL > > and xpl. Then (and only then), let Claude figure out how to > > translate between the two." > > > > That's just what I am doing. > > OK, I see that now. What I actually meant to suggest was something different: Feed Claude a detailed, *plain-English* prompt describing what you want the routine to do, then let Claude figure out how to do it. That is to say, eschew any attempt to "translate" from the original XPL code. That way, you avoid the possibility that inefficiencies or errors in your source code find their way into the new routine, and you force Claude to write the program in its native idiom. The potential benefit is not just theoretical. The longer you live with xpl, the more you'll find out how incredibly easier it is do things the lower-case way. > > By the way, I'm finding "xpl vs. XPL" to be a handy way to distinguish between the two idioms. Crucially, it avoids the need to find a different name for the new one, something that's been suggested, not unreasonably, as a way to avoid confusion. So I may officially dub the XyScript Programming Language "xpl" to distinguish it from its venerable forebear. But ... I'm open to other suggestions. For example, I'm attracted to XXPL ("XyScript XPL"), which preserves the allusion to XyWrite via the second "X". > > -- > Carl Distefano > cld@xxxxxxxxxx > |