Talk:IMP (programming language)

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The article doesn't explain what imp stands for. Is there a meaning for it?

The language was created by E. T. Irons and I remember it being claimed that IMP stood for Iron's Magnificent Plaything. Unfortunately, I can't find a source for that claim. MediaMangler (talk) 06:15, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I remember hearing that Irons got interested in extensible syntax languages from Tony Brooker and the Atlas Autocode Compiler Compiler which was also to some extent an extensible syntax system. Sorry I do not have a reference for that at the moment but I'll return here if I find it. It is probably just a coincidence that Edinburgh's extension of Atlas Autocode came to also be called Imp. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.243.109.9 (talk) 02:27, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]