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From: bowen@sunybcs.uucp (Devon E Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: pd lang
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Date: 3 Mar 88 15:04:36 GMT
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In article <751@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> relkins@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Rob Elkins) writes:
>
>A while back I heard of a language called comal. It had pascal-like procedures,
>and the ability to do recursion,(I think since it had call-by-name procedures),
>perhaps someone knows if its still available.  There was a society which was
>responsible for distribuiting it.

I've got an old copy of it. I played with it for an afternoon and it seemed
to be an easy to work with language. Sort of a combination of BASIC, Pascal
and logo (it's uses turtle graphics). The only problem with it is that the
language itself takes up 85% of the memory! Now, my copy is old. Maybe things
have changed a bit. I can boot it up and post the address of the group that
distributes it in the US if anyone would like it.

				    Devon Bowen (KA2NRC)
				    University at Buffalo

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