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From: ubiquity@cs.utexas.edu (Richard Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: programming language names
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Date: 12 Jan 91 04:16:43 GMT
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In article <230@platypus.uofs.edu> bill@platypus.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
writes:
>I didn't see JOVIAL in your list.  Or has the Air Force seen past the
>emperors new clothes???

JOVIAL is represented by two (slight) variants, differentiated by the names
J3B and J73.  J73 is the "modern" version.

BTW, the story about JOVIAL standing for "Jules' Own Version of the 
International Algebraic Language", after language progenitor Jules
Schwartz, is true, except that Schwartz did not select the name
himself.  His choice was "OVIAL" (O=our), but in the late '50s that
was a pretty racy name.

Back to the original thread: I didn't see FORMAC, a symbolic manipulation
language that predates MACSYMA from the late '60s.

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