Posted Dec 8, 2011 14:35 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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He liked Algol. A lot. Hence BOURNEGOL.
I have never seen another program written in BOURNEGOL, which is a real pity: the more programming becomes a matter of manipulating something deeply disgusting like that, the fewer people will want to be programmers and the higher our paycheques go :P
(similarly, I propose rotating knives and Great Cthulhu in job interviews.)