Re: Wild computer language names

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From: shi... Paul Shields
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 10:25

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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.  :-)

Well... there is a legend around here about

  JAIL - just another instructive language

For which there was no compiler.  
 Fitting, as you couldn't do anything useful in JAIL anyway.

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