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From: spf@moss.ATT.COM
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Subject: Re: NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: SPL, an alternative to PASCAL and C.
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 10:01:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 29 10:01:38 1987
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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?
That language (which I have studiously avoided) has been described to
me as an Algol/Pascal derivitive, and is usually used in signal processing
applications (perhaps it's their Signal Processing Language -- SPL?).
If your invention is NOT related to theirs, then you and the Navy are
practicing language name/acronym overloading (not the first time,
I'm sure).  This could prove inconvenient to you, and I doubt the
Navy will change the name of THEIR language.

Just thought you should know...

Steve