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From: "Charlie Gibbs" <cgi...@kltpzyxm.invalid>
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Subject: Re: 1132 printer history
Date: 01 Aug 12 11:38:32 -0800
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In article <jvavf3$fu...@dont-email.me>, numer...@aquaporin4.com
(Charles Richmond) writes:

> "Charlie Gibbs" <cgi...@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote in message
> news:1393.629T71T5253336@kltpzyxm.invalid...
>
>>            [snip...]                       [snip...]
>> [snip...]
>>
>> One computer science course in my time gave you a new language
>> every two weeks.  (I dropped out before having to take it.)
>> A sampling should be a generous addition to the list:
>>
>> LISP
>> UMIST
>> SNOBOL4
>> Algol 60
>> Algol 68
>> Algol W
>> pl/360 (the misbegotten bastard child of Algol and assembly)
>>
>> Did I mention that the CS department loved Algol-family languages?
>> (It might have had something to do with the department head being
>> involved in the development of Algol 68.)
>
> I really like SNOBOL4!!!  You can get a SNOBOL4 interpreter written in
> C, that will host well on Linux, or Mac OS/X... and other platforms.
> This system is available for download for *free* at:
>
> http://www.snobol4.org/csnobol4/curr/
>
> (Thanks much, Phil Budne!!!)
>
> So Charlie, you *still* have a chance to play with SNOBOL4.

I might still have a printout of the source code for Eliza,
written in SNOBOL4.

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