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Re:The history of Digital Research's Gemdos for the Atari ST by JNRowe on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @10:53AM (#39371324)
dmr's reference manual¹ used it, see section 9.10.

Matt Dillon's DICE would have been popular on the Amiga then, and it looks like it also favored parens. The latest tarball of DICE² is pretty fun for a spelunking session, if you're feeling nostalgic. It makes for an interesting mix as it pulls in a few contemporaneous non-Dillon tools with varying styles.

¹ https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cman.pdf

² http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeSrc/dice-1.15.tgz

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Re:The history of Digital Research's Gemdos for the Atari ST by lproven on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @12:52PM (#39372818)
The same Matt Dillon that went on to start Dragonfly BSD, of course.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/team/

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Re:The history of Digital Research's Gemdos for the Atari ST by unwind on Friday February 16, 2024 @03:22PM (#39402454)
Wow I had almost forgotten those names, thanks!
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