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On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:12:03 +0000, mausg wrote:

> On 2018-02-23, AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote:
>> On 22/02/2018 09:51, Bob Eager wrote:
>>> I once saw a theory that programmers are carelewss with code because
>>> they secretly enjoy the challenge of debugging!
>>
>> possibly true but not in my case, my dream is right-first-time code so
>> I aim for it but the reality is lots of debugging so I make that bit
>> easy.
>>
>>> Python? Try assembly language - or, if you are old enough to remember
>>> BCPL, that's a language where you can store the address of some code
>>> in a label and GOTO somewhere completely different...
>>
>> I do occasional dip into assembler, one of my computers in the 80s had
>> an in-line 6502 assembler in basic. blisteringly fast when you are used
>> to basic on a 1MHz machine.
>> Never used BCPL.
>> I do a lot of raspberry pi stuff so I use python a lot.
>>
>> Andy
> 
> From memory, the original DOS  for the Amiga was not being completed,
> so they got some guy from Cambridge U to write one in the time allowed,
> and he did it in BCPL, AFAIK after, it took years to work out some of
> the bugs. I forget his name, but remember him being described as
> 'brilliant'.

It was actually a group of students. It was called TRIPOS, and it was 
their final year (Tripos) project (although it is claimed that the name 
is an acronym for TRIvial Portable Operating System). I used it quite a 
bit on the PDP-11.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPOS

Tim King ported it to the 68000, and you may be thinking of him.




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