Simplest good beginner's language

[jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]

Kerry,
Your speech played tricks on you. The name of the language was is Comal 
not Kupl.  I'll check out those pages though just because Eric is a way 
cool dude!

     Jim
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> 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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