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From: "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au>
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> From: "Rob Warnock" <rpw3@rpw3.org>

> And lest we forget:
>
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WATFIV
>
> WATFOR/WATFIV [a.k.a. Univ. Waterloo FORTRAN] was a compile-and-go
> system widely used to teach FORTRAN from 1965 until the late 1980s

And let's not forget Charles Hamblin's GEORGE,
which did the same thing from 1957,
namely, compile-and-go.