[COFF] Of PL/I

[Stuff Received]

On 2024-04-07 19:25, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote (in part):
> On 4/7/2024 6:10 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I wrote a Fortran to PL/I crude translator in SNOBOL [...]
>>
>> Gadzooks...  For our "write a simple compiler" assignment I threatened to
>> use SNOBOL, but my lecturer (Ken Robinson) threatened to fail me :-)
>>
>> -- Dave
> 
> SNOBOL fascinated me as soon as I learned in first languages survey 
> course (also covered LISP, ALGOL, others) in 1971.

I recall a job cards lying around the card readers with ICEBOL written 
on them.  This may have been a local Toronto variant (in the 1970s).

S.