Simplest good beginner's language

[Kerry Hoath]

cupl is indeed still around,
for an implementation that runs under **ix
check out Erric Raymond's retrocomputing pages.
They also have algol and a one instruction assembler.
There is also intercal and a pdp-11 emulator.

Regards, Kerry.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:34:53AM -0500, jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:
> Hey Janina,
> Actually the simplest structured language ever written was Comal.  It was 
> written for the commodore 64 and was supposed to be written for the Apple 
> 2e and IBM.  Unfortunately I don't think it ever got off of the ground.  
> One nice thing you could do in Comal is do switch-like comparisons using 
> strings.  Now if that language was still around I'd recommend it for 
> beginners!  It was my first structured language though I'd been 
> programming in BASIC and FORTRAN for quite a while by that time.
> 
>      Jim
> 
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