Kerry,
Your speech played tricks on you. The name of the language was is Comal
not Kupl. I'll check out those pages though just because Eric is a way
cool dude!
Jim
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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