SLOBOL Is Best Known For The Speed, Or Lack Of It, Of Its Compiler.

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SLOBOL is best known for the speed, or lack of it, of its compiler.
Although many compilers allow you to take a coffee break while they
compile, SLOBOL compilers allow you to travel to Bolivia to pick the
coffee. Forty-three programmers are known to have died of boredom
sitting at their terminals while waiting for a SLOBOL program to
compile. Weary SLOBOL programmers often turn to a related (but
infinitely faster) language, COCAINE.
-- THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #13: SLOBOL

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