On one of those Simtel CDs I found Jorf. (Josephine's Recipe Filer). It was a OO language, with an interpreter for DOS or Windows, and it supported stuff that was really advanced for the time, and it made my coding a lot simpler.
Out of nostalgy, I downloaded a copy (yes, it is still there), and ran it in DosBOX (yes, it still works), to check if it was as good as I remembered.
You know what? It is.
In fact, if it had come out 2 or three years later, and as free software instead of shareware... I think it would have been big.
Here are some highlights og the language:
OOP
Has integrated windowing toolkit (for DOS and Windows)
It had an interactive hypertext/windowing tutorial written in itself. In 1993.
It looks like a cousin of Python. A freaky cousin, though.
-Comments start with |
-Strings limited with single or double quotes
-Automatic type conversions
-Intentation controls flow :-)
-No declared data types
-Integrated editor and debugger
The article author's native language seems to not be English, but it's a fun little piece on a language that might have been.
(Score: 1) by angelosphere on Monday October 19 2015, @09:35PM
At the time of Pascal, languages where not 'marketed'.
There was no reason for it.
The inventor btw. is Nicolaus Wirth. He invented more languages like, Modula, Modula II, Modula 3 and Oberon.
Researchers usually don't feel the need to 'market' languages.