S.I.M.P.L.E
4 December 2007
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #10: SIMPLE
SIMPLE is an acronym for Sheer Idiot’s Monopurpose Programming
Language<br />
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Environment. This language, developed at the Hanover College
for<br />
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Technological Misfits, was designed to make it impossible to write
code<br />
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with errors in it. The statements are, therefore, confined to
BEGIN,<br />
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END and STOP. No matter how you arrange the statements, you can’t
make<br />
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a syntax error. Programs written in SIMPLE do nothing useful.
Thus<br />
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they achieve the results of programs written in other languages
without<br />
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the tedious, frustrating process of testing and
debugging.<br />
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