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Subject: The Language List, Version 1.1 (Part 0 of 5)
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From: billk@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley)
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1991 19:27:28 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Computer Science Dept
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Somewhere nearby, you will find the latest version of The Language List,
in five parts.  The list now contains information on approx 950 computer
languages, past and present.  Most of the entries now have a definite
reference to published material, where more complete information may be
found.  Thanks to everyone who has contributed!  

Please if you know about languages that are not mentioned here yet, or see
anything that should be corrected, send it along to me for inclusion.

Better information is especially needed on the following languages, that
so far I've only seen mentioned indirectly:

AMP - Symbolic math
ASPIK - Specification language.
BETA - The successor of SIMULA.
C* - 
CCalc - Symbolic math
CCS - A specification language.  [Denmark?]
CIP-L - 
CoCoA - Symbolic math
CPL - C. Strachey et al [Reference?]
Crystal - High level functional parallel language.
CS-4 - Mentioned in "An Overview of Ada", J.G.P. Barnes.
CSP - 2. Specification language
Delta - Expression based, J.C. Cleaveland 1978.
Estelle - A specification language.  [Denmark?]
GAP - Symbolic math
Gedanken - Reynolds, 1970.
ICEBOL - Variant of SNOBOL. [I thought this was the name of a conference?]
INTELLECT - A query language - Larry Harris, 1977.
ISETL - Symbolic math
Joyce - Language for distributed computers, based on CSP and Pascal. Designed
   by Per Brinch Hansen, Denmark.
Lakota - 
LOOK - Specification language.
LTR - Mentioned in "An Overview of Ada", J.G.P. Barnes.
MAD - 2. Early extensible language.
MDL - "Muddle", developed at MIT, was basis for ZIL.
MORAL - Mentioned in "An Overview of Ada", J.G.P. Barnes.
MUSL - Manchester University Systems Language.
Neon - An object-oriented extension of FORTH, for the Mac.
O2 - 
PDL2 - Mentioned in "An Overview of Ada" J.G.P. Barnes.
Pearl - 1. Constructive maths, Constable, Cornell U, 80's.
PIE - From CMU, similar to ACTUS.
Plasma - Carl Hewitt, ca 1980.  The first actor language.
Platon - Developed at DAIMI, U Aarhus, Denmark.
POOL - A family of languages from Philips Research Labs, Netherlands.
PROMAL - 
QUEL - A query language.
Quest - 
SDL - 2. A specification language.
SETL2 - Improvements over SETL.  Kirk Snyder.
SPECIAL - SRI specification language.
STP4 - Statistical language.
WAFL - WArwick Functional Language.  Lisp-type language developed at Warwick
  U, England.
Y - Arizona.  Similar to Yacc??

-- 
--Bill Kinnersley
  billk@hawk.cs.ukans.edu
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