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spitbol / x64

SPITBOL x64 provides raw power and speed for non-numeric computation on the x86_64 architecture
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Thank you #23

Closed VulcanTourist closed 8 months ago

VulcanTourist commented 10 months ago

Thank you for helping preserve and keep this language alive. My personal experience with it was brief but formative, and it would be a shame for it never to be formative for anyone else.

I took a summer job - my first "career" job - as a programmer working at a banknote printing company. They used PDP 11/70 systems running a custom BOSS operating system, and SPITBOL as the language to direct and control the operation of the phototypesetting machines. It was all entirely new to me, including SPITBOL. I found it to be an odd language with a strange syntax which was nevertheless adept at the one job it did best: pattern matching.

Thank you for preserving this curious language.

CheyenneWills commented 10 months ago

Thank you.

There will be some updates coming soon, more fixes for floating point, and a bit longer term some new (old) features enabled.