SESPOOL

SESPOOL

Paradigm(s)	procedural
Designed by	Glen E. Newton, J. Denbigh Starkey, Bruce Leland, Sam Deleganes, Paul Gilliam, and Keith Lantz
Appeared in	1976
Computational class	Turing complete
Reference implementation
Influenced by	PL/I

SESPOOL (Simple Extensible Systems PrOgramming Orient Language) was a language developed at the Washington State University in the 1970s and was implemented on an IBM 360/67.

Example

   MAX: PROCEDURE (A,B) RETURNS (INTEGER);
     A,B,M :- INTEGER;
     ENDDECLS;
     IF A > B THEN M := A ELSE M := B ENDIF;
     PROCVAL IS M;
   ENDPROC;

External resources

• SESPOOL, a language for systems programming by Glen E. Newton and J.Denbigh Starkey, Computer Languages Volume 2, Issue 3, 1977, Pages 75-91
• SESPOOL: a simple extensible systems programming oriented language European Computing Conference on Software Systems Engineering, September, 1976, pgs 463-482