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Yet another conversational programming language - BPL

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ACM Annual Conference/Annual Meeting archive
Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference - Volume 2 table of contents

Pages: 516 - 521

Year of Publication: 1978

ISBN:0-89791-000-1

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M. H. Williams

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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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.

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