On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (2012)
This is from 2012.He's wrong of course about being the only user.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.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.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.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.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.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.