cupl is indeed still around, for an implementation that runs under **ix check out Erric Raymond's retrocomputing pages. They also have algol and a one instruction assembler. There is also intercal and a pdp-11 emulator. Regards, Kerry. On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:34:53AM -0500, jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > Hey Janina, > Actually the simplest structured language ever written was Comal. It was > written for the commodore 64 and was supposed to be written for the Apple > 2e and IBM. Unfortunately I don't think it ever got off of the ground. > One nice thing you could do in Comal is do switch-like comparisons using > strings. Now if that language was still around I'd recommend it for > beginners! It was my first structured language though I'd been > programming in BASIC and FORTRAN for quite a while by that time. > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
