[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/1/2018 9:34 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 07/31/2018 09:17 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/31/2018 4:47 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2018-07-31 01:44, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 7/30/2018 1:39 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> Isn't RATFOR a kind of compiler that reads RAT and emits
>>>>> an intermediate language resembling Fortran?  :-)
>>>>
>>>> I assume it is joke.
>>>>
>>>> RAT stands for RATional.
>>>>
>>>> And it outputs valid Fortran.
>>>
>>> I don't see why you would think it's a joke.
>>
>> I assume it was a joke about "rat" also being a generaly
>> despised animal.

>> But I don't think the input is RAT.

> OK, OK, it was a joke...
> 
> RATFOR -- input RAT output FOR.

Or input RATFOR / Rational Fortran output FORTRAN?

> And I didn't even think of vermin when I wrote that.  I have done RATFOR
> and think it was a very elegant solution to a common problem.

OK.

I seem to have over analyzed the choice of work.

Sorry.

Arne