SLOBOL programming language
|
|
SLOBOL 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 SLOBOL:
SLOBOL ... SLOBOL is best known for the speed, or lack of it, of its compiler. Although many compilers allow you to take a coffee break while they compile, SLOBOL compilers allow you to take a trip to Bolivia to pick up the coffee. Forty-three pro- grammers are known to have died of boredom sitting at their ter- minals while waiting for a SLOBOL program to compile. Weary SLO- BOL programmers often turn to a related (but infinitely faster) language, COCAINE.
It is a spoof of SNOBOL.
The other languages in the list are SIMPLE, 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)