From: Stuff Received <stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca>
To: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: Of PL/I
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:41:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c9d8682-1761-dd35-b101-b5aff46288ca@riddermarkfarm.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a40818d5-245a-4291-9dc4-affb9b4a953b@technologists.com>
On 2024-04-07 19:25, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote (in part):
> On 4/7/2024 6:10 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I wrote a Fortran to PL/I crude translator in SNOBOL [...]
>>
>> Gadzooks... For our "write a simple compiler" assignment I threatened to
>> use SNOBOL, but my lecturer (Ken Robinson) threatened to fail me :-)
>>
>> -- Dave
>
> SNOBOL fascinated me as soon as I learned in first languages survey
> course (also covered LISP, ALGOL, others) in 1971.
I recall a job cards lying around the card readers with ICEBOL written
on them. This may have been a local Toronto variant (in the 1970s).
S.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-09 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-02 15:06 [COFF] " Dave Horsfall
2024-04-02 16:40 ` [COFF] " Clem Cole
2024-04-02 17:01 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2024-04-03 16:18 ` Paul Winalski
2024-04-03 17:30 ` segaloco via COFF
2024-04-03 20:44 ` Paul Winalski
2024-04-04 3:37 ` Wesley Parish
2024-04-04 15:40 ` Paul Winalski
2024-04-04 22:53 ` Peter Pentchev
2024-04-07 23:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-04-07 23:25 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2024-04-09 21:41 ` Stuff Received [this message]
2024-04-10 0:50 ` [COFF] SNOBOL, ICEBOL, SPITBOL, et al William H. Mitchell
2024-04-10 1:42 ` [COFF] " Dave Horsfall
2024-04-08 1:13 ` [COFF] Re: Of PL/I Paul Winalski
2024-04-02 19:25 ` Stuff Received
2024-04-02 20:31 ` William H. Mitchell
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