Infocom on PDP-11

woodelf bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Wed May 11 15:51:32 CDT 2005


Gooijen H wrote:

>No, I can not remember those quotes either.
>Must have been something else, Paul.
>For what I remember, BEATHE looked a bit like PASCAL; all the
>statements ended with a semicolon (;).
>Admitted, memories are vague after 30 years not using BEATHE :~)
>but I would certainly remember something as idiot as a quote for
>every letter of a reserved word of the language.
>  
>
I have not used algol but I looked at the tiny algol for the PDP-8.
I think that had quotes around the entire reserved word.
Ben alias woodelf




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