SIMPLE programming language
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SIMPLE is a fictional programming language invented as a joke by John Unger Zussman. It appears in a humorous list of "lesser known languages", published in InfoWorld in 1982 and later posted to Usenet. This is the original text pertaining to SIMPLE:
SIMPLE ... SIMPLE is an acronym for Sheer Idiot's Mono Pur- pose Programming Lingusitic Environment. This language, developed at the Hanover College for Technological Misfits, was designed to make it impossible to write code with errors in it. The statements are, therefore confined to BEGIN, END, and STOP. No matter how you arrange the statements, you can't make a syntax error.
It is a spoof of BASIC.
The other languages in the list are SLOBOL, VALGOL, LAIDBACK, SARTRE, FIFTH, C-, LITHP and DOGO.
External links
- Usenet post (http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=SLOBOL+LAIDBACK+SARTRE&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=5612%40uiucdcs.UUCP&rnum=12)