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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

On one of those Sim­tel CDs I found Jor­f. [ralsina.me] (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 cous­ing, 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.

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