Happy 65th Birthday to Ed Brown

[grixit]

My father was on the team that created Jovial. He claimed they named it after their boss.

Jules' Own Version of the Internatonal Algorithmic Language was a specialized subset of ALGOL developed to write software for the electronics of military aircraft by Jules Schwartz in 1959.

Yeah. My father said that Schwartz was just going to call it "Our Own Version of the International Algebraic Language" or OOVIAL.

I'm a little surprised to hear that it is still going, after Algol 68, Simula, Pascal, and of course Ada.

[Nikki]

Nerd factor quiz.

You are a nerd if you know which ones don't belong and why:

Ada
Algol
Autocoder
Basic
C (with or without plus signs)
Cobol
Fortran
Forth
Java
Lisp
Pascal
Perl
Ruby
Simula

[LPC]

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procedure ed

  begin
    spew rhetoric;
    if government surrendered
      free at last!
    else
      call ed
   end;

end;

My recollection is that in Prolog it would be something like:

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Ed(government surrenders).
Ed(x):-
   print("spew");
   Ed(x).

Of course, since you're never getting any new value for "x," the recursion is endless. So maybe there should be a request for new input after the spew.

Or maybe not.