THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #13 -- SLOBOL SLOBOL Is Best Known For The Speed, Or Lack Of It, Of Its Compiler.

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THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #13 -- SLOBOL

SLOBOL is best known for the speed, or lack of it, of its compiler.
Although many compilers allow you to take a coffee break while they compile,
SLOBOL compilers allow you to travel to Bolivia to pick the beans. Forty-
three programmers are known to have died of boredom sitting at their terminals
while waiting for a SLOBOL program to compile. Weary SLOBOL programmers
often turn to a related (but infinitely faster) language, COCAINE.

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