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Interactive programming language

JOSS was one of the first interactive, time-sharing programming languages. It pioneered many features that would become common in languages from the 1960s into the 1980s, including the use of line numbers as both editing instructions and targets for branches, statements predicated by Boolean decisions, and a built-in source-code editor that can perform instructions in direct or immediate mode, what they termed a conversational user interface. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: JOSSA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Multiyear emissions of carbonaceous aerosols from cooking, fireworks, sacrificial incense, joss paper burning, and barbecue as well as their key driving forces in ChinaInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The enchanter's forestThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Comparison of Raindrop Size Distribution Measurements by a Joss-Waldvogel Disdrometer, a PMS 2DG Spectrometer, and a POSS Doppler RadarCited 125 times
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📖 Definitions

Noun A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.

Noun A heathen divinity.

Noun Luck.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. Implementation
  3. Language
  4. File management
  5. Sample program

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

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