SLOBOL programming language

SLOBOL is a fictional programming language invented as a joke by John Unger Zussman. It appears in a humorous list of "lesser known languages", published in InfoWorld in 1982 and later posted to Usenet. This is the original text pertaining to SLOBOL:

    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
take  a  trip to Bolivia to pick up the coffee.  Forty-three pro-
grammers are known to have died of boredom sitting at their  ter-
minals while waiting for a SLOBOL program to compile.  Weary SLO-
BOL programmers often turn to a related (but  infinitely  faster)
language, COCAINE.

It is a spoof of SNOBOL.

The other languages in the list are SIMPLE, VALGOL, LAIDBACK, SARTRE, FIFTH, C-, LITHP and DOGO.

External links

• Usenet post