Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Request for computer science bloope Message-ID: <600005@ccvaxa> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 19:57:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.600005 Posted: Thu Aug 15 19:57:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:16:29 EDT References: <115@uw-june> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:uw-june:-11500:ccvaxa:600005:000:626 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!wombat Aug 15 18:57:00 1985 From the Preface to *Fortran IV with WATFOR and WATFIV* by Cress, Dirksen, and Graham: The name WATFOR was chosen to stand for _WAT_erloo _FOR_tran. When we began to write the new compiler, we needed a means of identifying it, and we chose the term WATFIV ("the one after WATFOR"), more or less as a convenience. As the compiler developed, we officially adopted the term; by a stroke of good fortune, it happens to be a short form for _WAT_erloo _F_ortran _IV_. "When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all." Roger Zelazny, *Doorways in the Sand* Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat