On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (2012)
This is from 2012.<p>He's wrong of course about being the only user.<p>I love this software, along with k/q. I admire the work Mr. Shields has put into this project.  I especially like the use of musl and provision of static binaries.<p>I do not use Perl, Java, Python, Javascript, Go, Rust, Closure, etc., etc.  Whatever the majority of people are recommending, that is generally not what I use.  It just does not appeal to me.<p>I guess I am stubborn and stupid: I like assembly languages, SPITBOL, k/q, and stuff written by djb.  Keep it terse.  Ignore the critics.<p>Yet this is now on the front page of HN.  Maybe because it is the weekend?  I really doubt that the software I like with ever become popular.  But who knows?  Maybe 10 years from now I will look at this post and marvel at how things turned out.<p>There is no "structured programming" with spitbol.  No curly braces.  Gotos get the job done.  Personally, I do not mind gotos.  It feels closer to the reality of how a computer operates.<p>Would be nice if spitbol was ported to BSD in additon to Linux and OSX.  As with k/q I settle for Linux emulation under BSD.