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diff --git a/lang/atlast/pkg-descr b/lang/atlast/pkg-descr index 1a1fda6eb2f7..4f770c9873c1 100644 --- a/lang/atlast/pkg-descr +++ b/lang/atlast/pkg-descr @@ -6,22 +6,4 @@ macro language and facilities for user extension and customisation and, at the same time, it is a foundation upon which new applications can be built in an open, component-oriented manner. -ATLAST was developed at Autodesk, Inc. Autodesk returned the rights -to me in 1991, and I subsequently placed the program in the public -domain. - -ATLAST is based upon the FORTH-83 language, but has been extended in -many ways and modified to better serve its mission as an embedded -toolkit for open, programmable applications. ATLAST is implemented in -a single file, written in portable C; it has been ported to many -different machines and operating systems, including MS-DOS, OS/2, the -Macintosh, and a wide variety of Unix machines. ATLAST includes -native support for floating point, C-like strings, Unix-compatible -file access, and a wide variety of facilities for embedding within -applications. Integers are 32 bits and identifiers can be up to 127 -characters; extensive stack and heap pointer checking is available to -aid in debugging. ATLAST may be configured at compilation time to -include only the facilities needed by a given application, thus saving -memory and increasing execution speed (when error checking is -disabled). - ---John Walker. +WWW: http://www.fourmilab.ch/sitemap.html#atlast |