
Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to
Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame,
S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions,
Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP,
Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash,
Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame, and to
Charles H. Moore about the design and development of Forth.
is interview, Computerworld ventures down a less serious path and
chats to Don Woods about the development and uses of INTERCAL.