Timeline for Which BASIC-like language has "ENDIF", "DIM ... OF" to declare arrays, and a double slash for comments?
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| Oct 16, 2023 at 16:40 | comment | added | Alan B | COMAL on Apple II was the government mandated platform for computer science classes here in Ireland in the early 80s. | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 9:06 | comment | added | CSM | COMAL was available for the BBC Micros | |
| Oct 14, 2023 at 14:21 | comment | added | neil | That was my immediate guess. We were taught programming in COMAL at school in the mid-90s on old (even at the time) BBC computers. I think they changed a couple of years later. | |
| Oct 14, 2023 at 10:18 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | I personally remember the COMAL cartridge for C64 being used at school. IIRC, we used to add cool stuff to the EEPROM in it | |
| Oct 13, 2023 at 20:48 | history | edited | Jerry Stratton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Noted that Starting with COMAL was on a Commodore, not an IBM-PC.
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| Oct 13, 2023 at 18:48 | history | edited | Jerry Stratton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Linked to the COMAL-80 document suggested by miken32.
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| Oct 13, 2023 at 16:00 | comment | added | miken32 |
Wiki article also links to this PDF which has full syntax including // remarks. Impressed you found this so fast.
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| Oct 13, 2023 at 15:49 | history | edited | Jerry Stratton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added links to manuals and an emulator for a version of COMAL available in the early eighties.
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| Oct 13, 2023 at 15:43 | comment | added | tacecapS | Thank you! This has been doing my head in. What an interesting language I had no clue existed! | |
| Oct 13, 2023 at 15:42 | vote | accept | tacecapS | ||
| Oct 13, 2023 at 15:35 | history | edited | Jerry Stratton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added further resources.
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| S Oct 13, 2023 at 15:29 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Oct 13, 2023 at 15:29 | history | answered | Jerry Stratton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |