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- From: landon@Apple.COM (Landon Dyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: TRAC Specification
- Message-ID: <76038@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 06:28:45 GMT
- References: <28878@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1992Dec31.051342.11650@eskimo.com>
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- i found a description of TRAC(tm) in the second
- edition of _macro processors_ by a.j. cole
- (cambridge university press, ISBN 0-521-28560-7).
- it is nowhere near a specification, but it does
- give the flavor of the language, and you could
- probably implement a similar language with the
- description provided.
-
- references cited by cole include:
-
- mooers, c.n. & deutsch, l.p. _TRAC, a text handling language_,
- pp 229-46 proc. a.c.m. 20th nat'l conference, 1965.
-
- mooers, c.n., _TRAC, a procedure-describing langauge for
- the reactive typewriter_; pp. 215-19 comm. a.c.m. vol. 9,
- no. 3, 1966.
-
- mooers, c.n., _reply to letter "language protection by trade-
- mark ill advised" by b.a. galler_, comm. a.c.m. vol. 11,
- no. 3, 1968.
-
- i'm fairly certain that TRAC(tm) is indeed a
- trademark. mooers is (in)famous for his
- insistence that the trademark symbol accompany use
- of the language's name.
-
- sam76 is/was a similar language; it was described
- in a couple early issues (~1977) of dr. dobb's
- journal. sam76 may have had a brief revival on
- the pc in the early 80's, but i am not certain of
- this.
-
-
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-
- landon dyer
- apple computer newton team
- not the views of apple computer
-