Talk:UNCOL

The dragon book claims it's Universal COMPILER language... Wouter Lievens 16:13, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Universal Computer Source Code
Universal Computer Source Code Copyrighted © 2005 by Chien Yi Lee (October 17, 2005)

DUNNO if this is right place to note. The UNCOL page claims that the idea was introduced by Conway. That however can not be more wrong. In - Melvin E. Conway, "Proposal for an UNCOL", Communications of the ACM - he already references to another article - "The problem of programming communication with changing machines a proposed solution, 1958" which is about UNCOL as well. That article on the other hand says: "This concept is not particularly new or original. It has been discussed by many independent persons as long as 1954. It might not be difficult to prove that 'this was well-known to Babbage', so no effort has been made to give credit to the originator." The claim Conway being behind idea of UNCOL should be changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.113.242.248 (talk) 18:03, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

The Universal Computer Source Code is defined as a set of integer Temporary Numbers whose transformation to other distinct Universal Computer Source Codes are made permanently flexible and completely automated by the Universal Permanent Software.

Reasons for failure
The reasons why an UNCOL has never been successfully defined are deeper than the "not enough memory" reason given in the article. UNCOL is just as big a problem today as it was in the 1960s despite our plentiful, cheap memory. Comp.compilers has some interesting discussion on the usual progress of an UNCOL project from initial partial success and resulting optimism to a realisation of the real size and nature of the problem to eventual disillusion and abandonment of the project. -- Derek Ross | Talk 19:08, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

UNCOSOCO (Universal Computer Source Code)is not UNCOL
universalcomputersourcecode.com official website —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chien Yi Lee (talk • contribs) 04:40, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Cry, The Beloved Compiler
This is the kind of topic which makes one want to "Cry UNCOL"..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.52.192.26 (talk) 00:44, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Link
Principles and Problems of a Universal Computer-Oriented Language --89.25.210.104 (talk) 13:40, 15 June 2018 (UTC)