[watersb]

Esoteric programming language developed for the superconducting super collider, Glish, was picked up by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which used it well into the 2000s.

Glish supported networked remote procedure calls, made then almost transparent to the program. Otherwise, Glish was roughly similar to Tcl or Lua.

I don't know what other bits and pieces got salvaged from the SSC project.

[shawn_w]

Documentation etc: https://www.cv.nrao.edu/glish/papers/index.html

[vel0city]

I've read a lot of the science funded in the early engineering of the project around the magnets eventually rolled into the LHC, so there's that.

Otherwise it seems like we spent a lot of money on a 17-mile hole in the ground in North Texas.