Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "ABC (程式語言)" in Chinese language version.
Being youthful at the time I figured I could design and implement a language "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike" ABC, improving upon ABC's deficiencies, and solve our support applications problem, so around Christmas 1989, I started hacking.
I had been part of the ABC development team in the early ‘80s, and in my head I had analyzed some of the reasons it had failed.
Being youthful at the time I figured I could design and implement a language "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike" ABC, improving upon ABC's deficiencies, and solve our support applications problem, so around Christmas 1989, I started hacking.
I had been part of the ABC development team in the early ‘80s, and in my head I had analyzed some of the reasons it had failed.