25 Feb
2017
25 Feb
'17
11:36 p.m.
Compiles Only Because Of Luck.
Completely Obsolete, Badly Outdated Language
Even Feldman Likes it (The other FORTRAN.)
On Feb 25, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Back in the days of 4MB SPARC machines (and 68K machines) we joked that EMACS stood for
Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.
To me the good news is was if you could laugh at yourself I think it was pretty sign.
There were a bunch of them... two more I can remember:
LISP -- Lots of Insipidly Silly Parens
Multics - Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously
There was a Fortran one I've forgotten that started with "Friendly Only"
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