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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 19 2015, @10:03PM
Yeah, there's a few magazines that were pretty interesting back in the day:
Byte
Dr. Dobbs Journal
C++ Report (1990s)
I'm leaving out the Sunday newspaper-sized ones that were mostly ads.