CAL programming language
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CAL is the name of two unrelated programming languages.
[edit] CAL (Joss family)
CAL (Conversational Algebraic Language) was a programming language and system designed and developed by Butler Lampson at Berkeley in 1967.
The design of CAL was based on JOSS but had new features and was implemented on the SDS 940. Lampson states that "many of its techniques were adopted by Tymshare for their interactive SuperBasic system".[1]
[edit] CAL (Business Objects)
CAL is also the name of a language developed by Business Objects. It is a lazy functional programming language similar to the Haskell programming language. An implementation is available from the Business Objects Labs site. CAL forms part of the Quark Framework which includes a visual programming tool, Gem Cutter.
[edit] External references
- Butler W. Lampson, "CAL reference manual", University of California, Berkeley, 1967.
- CAL, Tymshare Manuals, Reference Series, June 1969. (Unknown whether the text of this is the same as Lampson's.)
