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SESPOOL
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| 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