Re: Kvikkalkul: secret programming language of the Swedish Navy

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:47:21 -0800, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:

> On 2015-02-27 13:19:09 +0000, RS Wood said:
> 
>> On 2015-02-27, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Some Kvikkalkul resources are no longer available. Your help is
>>>> needed to keep this language from being lost to future generations of
>>>> computer programmers.
>>> 
>>> Part of me thinks that April 1st came early this year...
>> 
>> If the site was made with Claris HomePage, it's more likely that April
>> 1st came early about 19 years ago (yikes, has it been that long?)
> 
> If I post a document I created today with my IIGS's Writer's Choice
> Elite would you come to the same conclusion?  Just yesterday I was
> moving some files off my Powerbook 5300c.  All one needs is an emulator
> or an old computer to generate old looking files.
> 
> Not that it's concrete proof, but archive.org has no record of that page
> before September 16, 2009.  However Google's archive does indeed show a
> posting from 1994 now that I look!
> 
> Maybe it's old but I'm not convinced that it isn't a practical joke.
> 
>> It would be interesting if a Swedish speaker could tell us what that
>> word means.  As for unique languages, this thing dates back to the
>> 1960s, a time when creating a new language wasn't that unheard of and
>> computer scientists were far more accustomed with going straight to the
>> bare metal layer, or just above.
> 
> I don't speak Swedish but I can tell you without looking at anything but
> the word that it means "quick calculator."

A Swedish student of mine says he's never come across the word. More 
likely to be 'cod Swedish' (as from the 'Swedish chef').



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Kvikkalkul: secret programming language of the Swedish Navy RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-02-26 11:45 +0000
  Re: Kvikkalkul: secret programming language of the Swedish Navy Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-26 23:24 -0800
    Re: Kvikkalkul: secret programming language of the Swedish Navy RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-02-27 13:19 +0000
      Re: Kvikkalkul: secret programming language of the Swedish Navy "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2015-02-27 21:13 +0100
      Re: Kvikkalkul: secret programming language of the Swedish Navy Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-27 15:47 -0800
        Re: Kvikkalkul: secret programming language of the Swedish Navy Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-02-27 23:48 +0000
          Re: Kvikkalkul: secret programming language of the Swedish Navy Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-28 11:08 +0200
            Re: Kvikkalkul: secret programming language of the Swedish Navy Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-02-28 12:22 +0000

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