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by donatj 898 days ago
What language is this written in?
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1970's was MDL (a lisp dialect of sorts), later versions used a specialised subset:

    In 1980 Marc Blank and Joel Berez adapted the MDL language to create a subset called ZIL (Zork Implementation Language) which was used extensively by Infocom to create their award winning games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language)