language: PILOT


Language:
PILOT
Package:
pilot
Version:
1.6
Parts:
compiler(->C), interpreter, library, documentation, examples, tutorial, test suite.
Author:
Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Location:
ftp://locke.ccil.org:pub/retro/pilot-1.6.shar.gz (in the Museum of Retrocomputing)
Description:
PILOT is a primitive CAI language first designed in 1962 on IBM mainframes. It is rather weak and has very odd lexical rules, but is easy to learn and use. I wrote this implementation strictly as a hack, but it works and does include an interactive tutorial written in PILOT itself which is also a decent test load. This implementation is both an interpreter for the PILOT language and a compiler for it using C as an intermediate language.
Conformance:
Reference implementation of the IEEE Standard for PILOT, 1154-1191
Bugs:
report to Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Restrictions:
If you plan to make money from it, contact the author.
Portability:
Any ANSI C host.
Announcements:
comp.lang.misc,alt.lang.intercal
Updated:
October 16th, 1994

Language:
ALGOL-60, FOCAL, FOOGOL, INTERCAL, JCL, MIXAL, OISC, PILOT, TRAC, orthogonal, Little Smalltalk
Package:
The Museum of Retrocomputing.
Location:
ftp://locke.ccil.org/pub/retro/
Description:
The Museum of Retrocomputing. This archive collects implementations of languages that time forgot -- also, the jokes, freaks, and monstrosities from the history of language design.

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