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unusual facts about computer language



MIMIC

MIMIC, known in capitalized form only, is a former simulation computer language developed 1964 by H. E. Petersen, F. J. Sansom and L. M. Warshawsky of Systems Engineering Group within the Air Force Materiel Command at the Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, USA.


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Automatic calculation of particle interaction or decay

II Matrix element code generation: Various methods are used to automatically produce the Matrix element expression in a computer language (Fortran, C/C++).

BANCStar

The BANCStar programming language, a computer language used by the BANCStar software

Bulls and cows

A computer program moo, written in 1970 by J. M. Grochow at MIT in the PL/I computer language for the Multics operating system, was amongst the first Bulls and Cows computer implementations, inspired by a similar program written by Frank King in 1968 and running on the Cambridge University mainframe.

Chomski

chomski virtual machine (named after the noted linguist Noam Chomsky) and pp (the pattern parser) refer to both a command line computer language and utility (interpreter for that language) which can be used to parse and transform text patterns.

CSMP III

The earlier CSMP III text-based programming language has been superseded by variations such as APL and object oriented computer-language modelling versions of CSMP such as OOSCMP.

Default logic

For example, the computer language Prolog uses a sort of default assumption when dealing with negation: if a negative atom cannot be proved to be true, then it is assumed to be false.

Herbert Gelernter

First implemented with Nathaniel Rochester a computer language for list processing within FORTRAN, the work for this was done, in fact, with Carl Gerberich at IBM, to this end producing the FLPL (Fortran list processing language).

Interactive programming

Interactive programming has also been used in applications that need to be rewritten without stopping them, a feature which the computer language Smalltalk is famous for.

Loglan

This has been thought to make it suitable for humancomputer communication, which led Robert A. Heinlein to mention the language in his science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966), and as a fully-fledged computer language in The Number of the Beast (1980).

Melvin Conway

In the 1970s and 1980s, he was involved with the MUMPS medical computer language and system language standard specification for the National Bureau of Standards.

Style sheet

Style sheet language, a computer language that describes the presentation of structured documents