Waduzitdo 2001

Welcome to the unofficial Waduzitdo page, a page discussing one of the more unusual relics of the tiny language era of the late 1970s. You can view the current spec here. You can also find an implementation here; it's written in Perl and was contributed by a generous fellow named Jeremy Madea, who seems to be somewhat ashamed of doing it.

When I wrote this page originally, I appeared to be the the last keeper of Waduzitdo on the net; I had found only one reference to it that doesn't point back to this page, a site about a homebrewed computer from Great Britain called Chaos. One piece of software that ran on it was an adventure game written in a modified form of Waduzitdo; there's only about a page of source code to it on the site, though. The language is Turing-incomplete, and the syntax is fairly similar to that of Pilot, to the point where Eric S. Raymond deems it in fact a Pilot dialect. It's mostly good for writing very simple quiz programs and games for people mystified by the capabilities of your brand new Altair computer.

Now as it happens, in 2008, contributor Lee Bradley sent me this site -- it is a full scan of the original Byte article, including source code for versions in Intel 8080 assembler and Pascal.

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