meaning of fortruncible
1. FORTRUNCIBLE A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 25:16 May 1959. fortune cookie WAITS, via the Unix "fortune" program A quotation, item of trivia, joke, or maxim selected at random from a collection the "cookie file" and printed to the users tty at login time or less commonly at logout time. There was a fortune program on TOPS-20. [First program?] [Jargon File]
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