Yet another conversational programming language - BPL

ABSTRACT

BPL is an interactive language which is derived from the languages BASIC and Pascal. It was designed as a two-tier language to cater for beginners as well as advanced programmers. The lower level is very similar to BASIC with a few slight modifications particularly to the procedure/function declarations and control statements. The higher level incorporates most of the flexible data structures available in Pascal. The resulting language provides the advantages of both BASIC and Pascal.

REFERENCES

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: BPL

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

General Terms:
Languages

Keywords:
BASIC, BPL, Pascal, Programming language