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( THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES )
( #13: SLOBOL )
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( SLOBOL is best known for the speed, or )
( lack of it, of its compiler. Although )
( many compilers allow you to take a )
( coffee break while they compile, SLOBOL )
( compilers allow you to travel to )
( Bolivia to pick the coffee. Forty-three )
( programmers are known to have died of )
( boredom sitting at their terminals )
( while waiting for a SLOBOL program to )
( compile. Weary SLOBOL programmers often )
( turn to a related (but infinitely )
( faster) language, COCAINE. )
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