I learned FOCAL on a PDP-8/L, the first computer I'd ever seen that didn't fill a basement. Fun little language, where arrays were undeclared and sparse. I th

I learned FOCAL on a PDP-8/L, the first computer I'd ever seen that didn't fill a basement. Fun little language, where arrays were undeclared and sparse. I think every array element you wrote to probably created a symbol table entry. Sure did take a long time to load FOCAL's paper tape on an ASR/33. Maybe a load would fail 20% of the time and you'd have to reload. Ah, the glory days.