CodeArchaeology

A scripting language recorded in the packet-radio niche and dated only to the 1990s - and a case study in a language whose sole surviving trace is its catalogue entry, hidden behind an acronym that ham radio, Japanese paper dolls and an engineering slogan all got to first

TMT Pascal was a commercial 32-bit Pascal compiler sold by TMT Development Corporation from 1996, built to take Turbo and Borland Pascal source straight into protected-mode DOS, OS/2 and Win32 from a single multi-target code generator, with operator overloading, C-style compound assignment and a full 32-bit inline assembler bolted onto the Borland dialect

Tom is a pattern matching compiler built at LORIA and Inria in Nancy that grafts term rewriting onto Java and C: %match, algebraic signatures, backquote term construction, rewrite rules and a strategy library, compiled away into ordinary host-language code so that rewriting techniques could be used inside real applications instead of inside a dedicated interpreter

A comprehensive catalog of 1,200+ programming languages from computing history, with dates, status, paradigms, and categories.

TINCL, The Idiotically Named CGI Language, is a template-and-C preprocessor written in 1998 by Ben Olmstead - the creator of Malbolge - for writing CGI programs at the Colorado School of Mines. A TINCL source file is divided into named sections, mixes literal HTML with escaped blocks of C, and is compiled by a flex-based translator into a C program; the language was never taken past beta, and its distribution archive is lost

MarketScript was the postfix command language embedded in MarketSheet, the real-time trading-room display product built by Teknekron Software Systems (later TIBCO) around 1990. Traders wrote scripts like INDU find select red fill on buttons and price alerts to recolour, hide, move and navigate the live market-data sheets on their screens; it had no arithmetic, no variables and no control flow, and it survives today almost entirely inside a patent