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One of the authors of this was Robert Dewar. He was a computing genius and an awesome person. Another story about him is here: https://dwheeler.com/essays/make-

• guerby 3y ago
  And spitbol still lives in GCC/GNAT https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_rm/GNAT-Spitbol-g-spitbo-ads.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_rm/GNAT-Spitbol-g-spitbo... https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/ada/libgnat/g-spitbo.ads https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/ada/libgna... https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/ada/libgnat/g-spitbo.adb https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/ada/libgna...