Article: 71732 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: new C standard? Approved: Yamamoto Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:48:14 -0300 Organization: Atid/2 Message-ID: <40c0b5de$6$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> References: <10bu1vqcudin15f@corp.supernews.com> <9u20c09t6g1m4jcsesjqik97qddvlp0ak6@4ax.com> <1t90c0d0cu2rmmajt3g8cr8h8e13s18jrn@4ax.com> Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-No-Ahbou: Yes X-Treme: C&C, DWS, puns, TIC X-Newsreader: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.40/37 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 27 Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!newspeer1.stngva01.us.to.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:71732 In <1t90c0d0cu2rmmajt3g8cr8h8e13s18jrn@4ax.com>, on 06/04/2004 at 07:42 AM, Joe Zeff said: >On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:43:45 +1000, Lionel wrote: >> >>I think forth in COBOL would be even funnier. >How about assembler written in Algol 68? ObCDC The IMS[1] for the Algol 60 compiler for SCOPE[2] on the 6400 consisted of a translation of the compiler from COMPASS[3] to uncommented Algol 60. The CDC representative to their users' group didn't understand why I found that inadequate. [1] Logic manual: internal maintenance specifications. [2] Overloaded name for CDC operting systems. [3] Overloaded name for CDC assemblers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+bspfh to contact me. We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)