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Article #4893Re: Wild computer language names
From: meis... Michael Meissner
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 21:36
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 21:36
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In article <10...@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> mnee...@iiic.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes: | 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. :-) | | Of course, there is also MUMPS. Don't know what this stands for, but the | language indeed looks sick. Especially considering it was originally developed at Mass. General Hospital, I guess the analogy is appropriate. I also forget what MUMPS stands for. -- Michael Meissner email: meis...@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meis...@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Wild computer language names Message-ID: <MEISSNER.90Oct4173612@osf.osf.org> Date: 4 Oct 90 21:36:12 GMT References: <15893@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <10402@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Sender: ne...@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 20 Posted: Thu Oct 4 22:36:12 1990 In-reply-to: mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch's message of 4 Oct 90 18:40:58 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit