[geeks] threetran oh threetran, where-ever can you be?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, December 17, 2001 at 17:24:38 (-0500), James Sharp wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Software Bloat
>
> o/~ back when FORTAN was only THREETRAN....back when we programmed in ones
> and zeros and sometimes we ran out of ones o/~

THREETRAN!  Far better than INTERCAL!  :-)

   ONETRAN had used only the number one in its code, which made it difficult    
   to adapt to many situations. TWOTRAN, despite its name, had added the        
   zero, thereby gaining amazing flexibility. With THREETRAN we planned to      
   add the negative zero, which would have revolutionized the product all       
   over again.                                                                  

(if anyone wants the attribution they can bloody well use google themselves! :-)

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