Re: Wild computer language names

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From: r... Richard Conto
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 14:44

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In article <22...@sparko.gwu.edu> dut...@seas.gwu.edu () writes:
>It's probably been mentioned, but do you remember the MAD
>(Michigan Algorithm Decoder) language on the 709/7090 series?
>The manual was a Carrollian delight, but there was method in it.

MAD still exists as GOM (Good Old Mad).  It is still being used for
usefull stuff. My copy of the manual is dated 30 June 1989, and is
quite strange, but I've not read it cover to cover. (I'm just a simple
guy who has to take care of a program or two written in GOM.)

--- Richard

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Subject: Re: Wild computer language names
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