Mary

language An extensible, machine-oriented superset of

ALGOL68 developed by Mark Rain.

Mary is maintained (and used) by Kvatro Telecom AS.

Although dated, it still offers a nice strongly typed 3GL

with macros but without most of C's flaws.

It runs on SPARC and x86 computers.

Hidden on the back cover of the manual: MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB

- COERCION IMPOSSIBLE.

["Mary Programmer's Reference Manual", M. Rain et al, R Unit,

Trondheim Norway, 1974].

["Operator Expressions in Mary", M. Rain, SIGPLAN Notices

8(1), Jan 1973].

(1998-11-10)