[Oberon] blackbox model view controller

[Lars]

On Thu, November 10, 2016 7:26 pm, Douglas G Danforth wrote:
> We used SAIL for our programming language (Stanford AI Language,
> or Stanford AI memo L) which was a variant of Algol.

Sail, although I haven't looked into deeply, looks like a monster, almost
like an Ada with everything and the kitchen sink included.

i.e. not a small simple language but a big beast.

Were the compilers for sail absolute monsters of code, a huge undertaking?
Were they reliable compilers/interpreters? From my brief readings about
SAIL it just seems that it's such a large beast that it probably was
buggy, since it included everything and the kitchen sink for features.

Did you like it? think it was way too complex?  Although it doesn't look
like a simple language did it have some features that just weren't
available in other languages which gave you an advantage?

Why is SAIL not used today very much? or maybe it is: I'd have to research.