Re:
> > http://www.retrobits.com/ckb/secret/pet.html
>
> Hey Cameron:
>
> Thanks for posting this -- I'd never heard of this machine and it looks like
> a lot of fun. A $199 system with support for five mainstream languages?
> Seems like they could have sold a million of them just to developers and
> students . . .
I have a SuperPET, and enjoy it ... but it's a bit of a stretch to
say "five mainstream languages". The Waterloo APL, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN,
and Pascal were all fairly simple interpreters. As interpreters, they
were pretty good ones.
The Waterloo Assembler was, well, weird. What else can be said about
an assembler with a construct like:
GUESS
...
...
QUIF <condition>
...
...
ADMIT
...
ENDGUESS
:)
Stan Sieler sieler_at_allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler
Received on Sun Nov 19 2000 - 17:50:18 GMT