On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:45 AM, <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

I remember the Bournegol well; I did some hacking on the BSD shell.

Yep - lots of strange things in source debuggers.

In general, it wasn't too unusual for people from Pascal backgrounds to
do similar things,

When we did Magnolia & Tektronix the ex-Xerox/Alta guys lusted for Cedar/Mesa et al - and quickly discovered the Bournegol idea.

I shook my head/shrugged my shoulders, but it made them happy and they quickly wrote some pretty cool tools, like an ECAD system.