Too much kool-aid

Posted Feb 17, 2025 21:23 UTC (Mon) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: Too much kool-aid by mathstuf
Parent article: Maintainer opinions on Rust-for-Linux

I have no idea what programming language that even is. (I know there’s also a version in Limbo, for Inferno…)

No, we’re talking about the 32V-based one.
https://mbsd.evolvis.org/cvs.cgi/src/usr.bin/oldroff/nroff/ still shows some of the horrors.

Too much kool-aid

Posted Feb 17, 2025 21:55 UTC (Mon) by excors (subscriber, #95769) [Link] (1 responses)

That appears to be Ratfor, which is a Fortran preprocessor that lets you use more C-like syntax. (Ratfor was developed by Brian Kernighan and based on Dennis Ritchie's C, before they became K&R.)

Too much kool-aid

Posted Feb 17, 2025 22:42 UTC (Mon) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link]

Ah! I heard of it but have never seen it. Thanks!