From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!fluke!bhaskar
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: snobol4
Article-I.D.: fluke.284
Posted: Mon Oct 18 09:07:32 1982
Received: Wed Oct 20 06:35:35 1982
References: rabbit.813

We acquired Macrospitbol for our PDP-11/70 (RSTS) several years ago,
and found it to be very high quality software.  Unfortunately, the
PDP-11 architecture is too restrictive for that implementation to be
really usable (if I remember correctly, it had around 6K words available
for total dynamic memory (user's program + data)), but the compilation
as well as the execution speed were truly impressive.  When I switched
to Unix, I asked DISC about a Unix implementation (they had a VMS one),
and a year ago, I was informed that it was almost ready.  Like all
good software, it too can be believed in when it is seen...  But I
would like to put in a good word for Macrospitbol itself:  if I want
to write truly portable software, my two choices would be Macrospitbol
and Mainsail.