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The MDL ("Muddle") Programming Language (1979) [pdf]

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/mit/lcs/tr/MIT-LCS-TR-0293_MDL_Pgmg_Lang.pdf
12•twoodfin•6d ago

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Jtsummers•2h ago
https://archive.org/details/ADA070930/ - A somewhat better scan of the same text.
psi_•1h ago
Here's a fixed-up version of this classic manual (correcting the scanning errors from p. 71 onward found in the original): https://github.com/PDP-10/muddle/blob/master/doc/MDL_Program...

Other significant MDL manuals (including 2 similarly fixed-up versions) can be found here: https://github.com/PDP-10/muddle/tree/master/doc

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285•randycupertino•14h ago•272 comments

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314•zdw•15h ago•398 comments

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188•ashvardanian•13h ago•100 comments

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466•CGMthrowaway•12h ago•182 comments

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250•toomanyrichies•4d ago•79 comments

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App Store web has exposed all its source code

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259•og_kalu•6d ago•117 comments