Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

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From: zi... Patrick Tufts
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 18:51

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In article <81...@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> to...@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
>In article <1990Sep27....@iwarp.intel.com> mer...@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>>In article <3321@mindlink.UUCP>, a80@mindlink (Greg Goss) writes:
>SNOBOL, SPITBOL - Any guesses?

Lore has it that SNOBOL was so named by its author because it
"didn't stand a snow ball's chance in hell" of becoming widely used.

Pat

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From: zi...@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts)
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Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names
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Date: 28 Sep 90 18:51:01 GMT
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