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Since this is all about obscure languages, it maybe worth pointing out here that the original INTERCAL compiler was written in SPITBOL. On one or two occasions
by breadbox 11y ago
Since this is all about obscure languages, it maybe worth pointing out here that the original INTERCAL compiler was written in SPITBOL.
On one or two occasions I asked Don Woods to clarify some feature of the language that was incompletely described in the original INTERCAL document, and he dug out the original SPITBOL code in order to answer my question.
- epalmer 11y agoI was project manager over a FORTRAN project in the early 1980's. I remember very clearly how our team's productivity went up as well as satisfaction when the developers starting using the Ratfor (Rational Fortran) preprocessor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor At the time I did not realize that Brian Kernighan created Ratfor. Ratfor changed my thinking about program structure and coding style more than any other single event in my professional life.