Re: Languages From Hell -- your favorite one could walk again!

esr@netaxs.com (Eric Raymond)
Wed, 21 Sep 1994 21:15:55 GMT

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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 21:15:55 GMT

Richard A. O'Keefe (ok@cs.rmit.oz.au) wrote:
: But Knuth's MIX _was_ implemented. When I was an undergraduate at the
: University of Auckland, back when we had a Burroughs B6700, there was
: a MIXAL assembler and MIX interpreter available, written in B6700 Algol.


OK. Happens that a MIX interpreter was one of the first things to be
submitted to the Museum of Retrocomputing.


: > * Evil reputation. Preference will be given to languages only spoken
: > of in horrified whispers.
:
: Don't C and Perl qualify as languages only spoken of in horrified whispers?


Yes, in many circles.


However, we are hardly short of implementations for them. :-)
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Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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