Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umix!umich!mibte!jbh From: jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: pd lang Message-ID: <2537@mibte.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 88 17:55:13 GMT References: <463@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <751@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <8973@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: Michigan Bell Telephone Company Lines: 36 Summary: Comal still around In article <8973@sunybcs.UUCP>, bowen@sunybcs.UUCP writes: > 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 > There is a fellow in Wisconsin I think, Len Lindsay who is the COMAL Guru in the US. He has written much on the language and there is a COMAL users group. Unfortunately, I don't have any addresses here but if you check around at your local Commodore users group you are sure to find COMAL people. The language originated in Denmark and is now available on a bank switching cartridge for something like nintey bucks (includes Lindsays book). This leaves most of the 64's memory open for programs. -- Jim Harvey | "Ask not for whom the bell Michigan Bell Telephone | tolls and you will only pay 29777 Telegraph | Station-to-Station rates." Southfield, Mich. 48034 | ihnp4!mibte!jbh or try ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh