Real Programmers Don’t Use Fortran, Either! by Ed Nather (Story of Mel)

Program mel.c runs Mel Kaye's blackjack program bkjck.tx by simulating an LGP-30 computer. Note that bkjck.tx only runs on the LGP-30, not the RPC-4000.

To build and run

make
./a.out

The first column of output is player's cards, second column is dealer's cards.

               A - c          6 - d
               2 - c
Card?

Enter one of the following to be dealt a card.

yes
ok
si
ja
oui

Anything else means stand.

Press the return key 18 times to get a blackjack.