> Mirfak is the brightest star in the constellation of Perseus, > in which the second brightest start is ALGOL!
Fascinating! The name attests to a certain ambition, and from what I've gathered, upon publication of a paper on Mirfac there was a bit of back-and-forth in the journals between the proponents of "natural-language programming" (which has birthed such languages as Flow-Matic, Cobol, and this Mirfac) and those who opined that the entire concept was flawed and bound to fail (among them Edsger Dijkstra). (I wonder how the two camps would have rated the roff language. I suspect it wouldn't have received top marks from either side... :-)
