Attn: Programming Geeks: What's "truck"?

Factual Questions
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      • When visiting the local electronics department store, I have a tendency to look through all the programming/OS software just out of habit. I saw a cheap “teach yourself” $40 package today that teaches “general programming concepts in Basic, C, Java and Truck”.
  • What the hey is “truck”? It was listed and described as if it were another language, but I am surprised I have not heard of it at all, especially if it’s something suitable for beginners. I didn’t care to toss off the $40 to find out, but I’m still curious. The software publisher was Compton Interactive, or maybe Collier Interactive. - MC
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I did a web search and turned up nothing, which is unusual. They’ve got web pages on languages that have a total usership of about 1. My guess is it is some proprietary language that the author uses to teach programming. It is also probably only partly implemented.

So if you haven’t heard of it and I haven’t heard of it and Yahoo hasn’t heard of it – it probably doesn’t matter.

OTOH – “Thank you Mr. Wright and Mr. Wright, but the Army doesn’t really need flying machines.”

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I found this blurb. Your guess sounds right:

The idea keeps resurfacing - PASCAL was intended as a “pure” pedagogical language intended to teach programming skills without compromises required in practical application getting in the way. BASIC itself started at Dartmouth to do what its name suggested. There’s some merit in the idea of starting out people learning fundamental techniques in a simplified environment where they don’t have to mess with linkers, various OS oddities, arcane I/O mechanisms, component packaging … of course, they’ll have to graduate at some point …

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Using Google I found the following sites:
[url=“http://www.educcomp.co.nz/compton_programming.htm”/url]
[url=“http://www.learningco.com/news/news99/990201.htm”/url]
[url=“http://www.etoys.com/software/g/product/800/01/32/1.shtml”/url]

There are plenty more but I got tired.
It looks like TRUCK is OOPS for kids; sounds like fun.

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The TRUCK programming language generally consists of commands such as ACCELERATE(“leadfoot”), BRAKE(“deer in road”), and STEER(“drunkenly”). Error messages include:

Error 10W40: Oil is low.
Error 92: Quit buying that cheap 87 octane gas.
Error 1/32: Running on fumes.
Error $2000: General Transmission Default

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And I thought I knew how to post a link. Sorry for the mess.