Re: Patchless modification of Lua source code

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Philippe Verdy once stated:
> I cannot even find any reference about INRAC on the net. All I find is the
> acronym and brand in France of the "Institut National pour la Retraite
> ACtive", a training institute for senior people.
> 
> I find a reference in GitHub for the name of a module written in Perl for
> reverse engineering of RAC files used in the early 1980s by the RACTER
> program, used for chatting, an ancestor of IRC... But I don't know if you
> refer to this Perl module and its related language. This is an alpha
> module, not tested, not even documented.

  Congratulations!  RACTER was, in fact, written in INRAC and was
commercially available in tthe mid 80s [1][2].  The RAC files *is* the
program, and the language itself is non-deterministic in resolving names
which I gave as an example to back up the point Viacheslav Usov was making.

  -spc

[1]	It was even used in the writing of the book _The Policemans' Beard
	is Half Constructed_ (https://www.amazon.com/Policemans-Beard-Half-Constructed-Computer/dp/0446380512/)

[2]	The INRAC compiler was also available commercially, but is hard to
	find.