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"Reserved words (keywords) were also underlined in the original printouts. Popplestone performed syntax highlighting by using underscoring on a Friden Flexowriter." |
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- what you're referring to here is neither reserved words nor syntax highlighting. It's called 'stropping'. |
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(If they were reserved words they would not be usable as variable names within the language, and syntax highlighting is a decoration of a source for output, not a requirement of the input.) This is the variant of stropping as was used in Atlas Autocode, with which the authors (Robin Popplestone and Rod Burstall) were well familiar, since at the time COWSEL was being created, Edinburgh was in the process of adopting Atlas Autocode as their primary programming language, later to be renamed Imp. [[Special:Contributions/70.124.38.160|70.124.38.160]] ([[User talk:70.124.38.160|talk]]) 20:09, 31 March 2024 (UTC) |
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stropping
"Reserved words (keywords) were also underlined in the original printouts. Popplestone performed syntax highlighting by using underscoring on a Friden Flexowriter." - what you're referring to here is neither reserved words nor syntax highlighting. It's called 'stropping'. (If they were reserved words they would not be usable as variable names within the language, and syntax highlighting is a decoration of a source for output, not a requirement of the input.) This is the variant of stropping as was used in Atlas Autocode, with which the authors (Robin Popplestone and Rod Burstall) were well familiar, since at the time COWSEL was being created, Edinburgh was in the process of adopting Atlas Autocode as their primary programming language, later to be renamed Imp. 70.124.38.160 (talk) 20:09, 31 March 2024 (UTC)