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From: dave@zehntel.zehntel.com (Dave Funk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: pd lang
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Date: 3 Mar 88 18:17:43 GMT
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In article <751@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> relkins@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Rob Elkins) writes:
>In article <463@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael R. DeCorte) writes:
>>
>>Hello, I am in need of some pd languages for a comomdore 64.  I have a
>>few requirements
>>
>>1) must have something like a procedure
>>2) must have local variables
>>3) must not be buggy
>>4) intereactive
>>5) recursion
>
>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.
>
>Good Luck
>
>Rob Elkins
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COMAL is a very good, non buggy language.  It comes in two forms; diskette
or cartridge.  The diskette version is a little more simplistic, but still
quite powerful.  It has all the features requested above and a *lot* more.

Rather than attempting to recite all of it's features, you can call or write
to the exclusive distributor for COMAL:

	COMAL User's Group
	6041 Monona Drive
	Madison, WI  53716

	(608) 222-4432

The head honcho there is Len Lindsay.  He literally wrote the book for
the COMAL language (one of the best written books I have seen for the
C64/C128).  They support COMAL via newsletters, disk subscriptions, and
are on most of the major nets (QLink, CompuServe, etc).

I would strongly encourage you (or anyone) to take a look at COMAL.

I have no connection whatever with COMAL, except that I am a very satisfied
user.

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