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Article #4898Re: Wild computer language names
From: boe... Earl Boebert
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 02:00
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 02:00
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>>From article <15...@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, by tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff): >| 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. Melvin Conway, of coroutine fame and inventor of "Conway's Law," wrote a Burroughs 220 assembler called SAVE. It didn't stand for anything; it's just that you lost fewer card decks, listings, and manuals because they all had "SAVE" written on top of them. The only functional language *name* I ever encountered.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!shelby!msi.umn.edu!sctc.com!boebert From: boe...@sctc.com (Earl Boebert) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Wild computer language names Message-ID: <1990Oct6.020004.23917@sctc.com> Date: 6 Oct 90 02:00:04 GMT References: <15893@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Organization: Secure Computing Technology Corporation Lines: 10 Posted: Sat Oct 6 03:00:04 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit