From its modest beginnings in Southern California's San Fernando Valley, Valgol is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry. Valgol commands include really, like, well, and y*know. Variables are assigned with the =like and =totally operators. Other operators include the California Booleans, fersure and noway. Repetitions of code are handled in for/sure loops. Here is a sample Valgol program:
like y*know (I mean) start
if pizza =like bitchen and
b =like tubular and
c =like grodyax
then
for I =like to oh maybe 100
do wah -(ditty)
barf(1) =totally gross(out)
sure
like bag this problem
really
like totally (y*know)
Valgol is characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the message:
gag me with a spoon
The preceding informative announcement of this revolutionary new language for non programmers was first seen in the November 1984 issue of the University of Waterloo's mathNEWS. Transactor popularized it a year later. We now are bringing it to the attention of COMALites around the world to show how COMAL is influencing these new powerful languages. Notice the automatic indentation of structures and long variable names.
(This letter is from the transacter, vol 07 issue 01; downloaded from the User's Port in Monterey, July 1987 by JWC.)