Article View: alt.folklore.computers
Article #4851Re: Wild computer language names
From: Jeremy J. Epstein
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 14:28
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 14:28
19 lines
1213 bytes
1213 bytes
In article <15...@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: > Well then, here's a likely topic for discussion: > > What was the funniest and/or most memorable computer language NAME you > ever ran into? No, 'c89' is ineligible, that would be too easy. :-) > > Extra points if you wrote the compiler yourself. In my compiler writing class, we developed something called "HUMPTY". I don't remember what it stood for. It had ALGOL-60 control structure, SNOBOL string processing, LISP list processing, and a few other things. We wrote our compilers in PL360 on IBM 360s using cards. Almost any HUMPTY program would break the compiler :-) -- Jeremy Epstein TRW Systems Division 703-876-8776 jje%v...@uunet.uu.net
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1990Oct01.142833.11862@virtech.uucp>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!virtech!jjeReferences:
<15893@bfmny0.BFM.COM>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!virtech!jje From: jje@virtech.uucp (Jeremy J. Epstein) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Wild computer language names Message-ID: <1990Oct01.142833.11862@virtech.uucp> Date: 1 Oct 90 14:28:33 GMT References: <15893@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc. Lines: 19 Posted: Mon Oct 1 15:28:33 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit