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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: SPL, an alternative to PASCAL and C.
Message-ID: <1354@ihdev.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 15:56:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihdev.1354
Posted: Thu Apr 30 15:56:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 00:54:35 EDT
References: <221@helm.UUCP> <8894@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (Joe Isuzu)
Organization: American Nasal Amputation Centre
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In article <8894@clyde.ATT.COM> spf@moss.UUCP (Steve Frysinger) writes:
>In article <221@helm.UUCP> dlbaer@helm.UUCP (Dennis L. Baer) writes:
>>        Software   author   Dennis  Baer  has  released  the   Structured 
>>        Programming  Language,  (SPL)  a  free  format  block  structured 
>>        programming  language  that  runs on MSDOS  and  PCDOS  operating 
>
>Dennis, is this language related in any way to the U.S. Navy's SPL/1?

Or Hewlett Packard's SPL (Systems Programming Language) for the
HP3000, a pascal/algol like beastie that also has some low level type
features, and lots of access to `intrinsics', HP's stab at
monitor/system calls.  Actually, sort of nice to program in, compared
to your alternatives, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN or RPG.  By the way, do
any other BASICs exist that only allow identifiers to be one character
and an optional digit in length?  (At least the version I worked on 7
or odd years ago did).  It took me about a 30 line program to write a
mnemonic translater.  Wonder why HP couldn't do the same?!!

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Paul Guthrie
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