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QUILT (a.k.a. KWILT): A special purpose instructional language

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The “meaning” of KWILT has been lost to etymological history. The K was in honor of D. Knuth, but this gives “Knuth WILT” which is a bit disconcerting. Indeed, there was a tendency to pronounce the language as “kay-wilt”, which offended veteran users as much as COBOL programmers would resent “cobble”.

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  1. 1 Knuth, Donald E., Fundamental Algorithms, Addison Wesley, Chapter 2, 1968.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. 2 Horowitz, Ellis and Sahni, Santaj, Fundamentals of Data Structures, Computer Science Press, Inc. 1976. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  3. 3 Donovan, John J., Systems Programming, McGraw Hill, 1972. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library

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                  cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
                  ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 10, Issue 3
                  Proceedings of the 9th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
                  August 1978
                  178 pages
                  ISSN:0097-8418
                  DOI:10.1145/953028
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                    SIGCSE '78: Proceedings of the ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
                    August 1978
                    178 pages
                    ISBN:9781450374347
                    DOI:10.1145/800130

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