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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTH (not)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:39:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On 25 Oct 2024 17:16:11 -0400, Rich Alderson wrote:

> My first computer was a 12K (BCD charactersw) IBM 1401 running
> FORTRAN IV. Better compiler writers in those days...

They were quite slow, though.

I remember one story about a (Fortran?) compiler that took 20 minutes 
(including loading time) to process a program consisting of a single 
semicolon.

Yes, it was a syntax error.