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What was the first programming language to support “operator chaining”?

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When did the IBM 650 have a "Table lookup on Equal" instruction?

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What was the first programming language, other than Lisp, to have “short-circuiting” Boolean expressions?

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Why does Pascal have numeric labels?

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When was the phrase "sufficiently smart compiler" first used?

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How did the Burroughs B5000/B5500 provide hardware support for implementing Algol's call-by-name?

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Are there any primary sources for the “passing constant by reference” behavior in old Fortran compilers?

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What was the first programming system to place no limitations on the length of identifiers?

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Did Alexander Graham Bell suggest that “Ahoy!” (or some variation of it) be the standard telephone greeting?

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What did Ancient Greek plays look like?

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Did COBOL have an English-like "or" operator?
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Was there a bug in Wirth's original Pascal compiler?
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Is it true that "do ... done" blocks in Bash do not end with "od" because od existed before Bash/Bourne shell?
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Rehearsal Letters: Skipping I, J, O?
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Why did the assigned goto statement in Fortran need a label list?
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Was there an analog of local labels in the IBM assembly language?
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why there is a "Text line contains an invalid character" after "Undefined control sequence" and why "Q" required further input?
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How did macro-instructions and indirect addressing interact in IBM's MAP/FAP assemblers?
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When is TeX in "no mode"?
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How was dataflow analysis performed before SSA?
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Looking for the source code of a sophisticated Pascal pretty-printing program
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Where can I find (TUGboat 4 supplement) "TeX and METAFONT: Errata and changes" from 1983?
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First use of "destructuring" in computing?
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Why did the IBM 650 use bi-quinary?
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Unix utility "smiley" to decode emoticons: Where to get it?
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Simple Brainfuck Interpreter in C
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How did UCSD Pascal exception mechanism work?
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