The most common translation of MAD would be Verrückt (bonkers, crazy), although it can translate to wütend in some contexts. The more accurate translation of wütend would be 'raging'. So if your theory is right, it was a German who was rather inexperienced at English or just took the translation form a dictionary.
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 00:36, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:51 PM Wilhelm Spiegl <wilhelm.spi...@mail.com> > wrote: > > > > https://wiki.edu.vn/wiki17/2021/01/05/mad-programmiersprache-wikipedia/amp/# > > > > I dont know if this helps, run a translator if necessary > > > > That's very cool, thanks for sharing that. The "amp" page didn't work > for me, but I could access it here: > https://wiki.edu.vn/wiki17/2021/01/05/mad-programmiersprache-wikipedia/ > > I didn't realize MAD supported abbreviations of instructions. Another > way to get confused reading MAD source files. The wiki shows this > 3-line program: (programs don't start with a "PROGRAM" instruction .. > you just start writing) > > PRINT FORMAT HELLOW > VECTOR VALUES HELLOW=$13h0Hello, world*$ > END OF PROGRAM > > > And apparently you can abbreviate those commands like this: > > P'T HELLOW > V'S HELLOW=$13h0Hello, world*$ > E'M > > > Fortunately, the source files I'm working with don't have (I think) > abbreviations like this, so I'm saved from that headache. > > > *Interesting note: The page is titled "WÜTEND" (translated to English > as ANGRY). I'm not sure if that's a German author who literally > translated "MAD" to "WÜTEND" or why that was done. :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
