Hi, Craig
me @ ex-SPL programmer, I never see mod-cal, but SPL is similar to PASCAL
HP version of PASCAL + SPL = MOD-CAL? ...

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Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:<[log in to unmask]>...
> Wirt,
>
> Thanks for the history of SPL.
>
> So what is "mod Cal"?
>
> -Craig
>
> Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bill,
>
> > Thanks Wirt - I must be one of the few sites that doesn't even have an SPL
> > compiler - the Latin, I suppose, of the HP3000 world ;-)
>
> When we bought our first HP3000 in 1978/9, SPL was included in the FOS (or at
> least so we thought). But in fact, we didn't get it. It had been deleted just
> days before our order, so we didn't get it initially. The price went from
> free to something on the order of $5000, so we didn't buy it either, especially
> given that we didn't know if we needed it or even much about it.
>
> Years later, in the mid 1980's, HP obsoleted SPL and took it off of the price
> list in preference for Pascal. At that point, our CE, knowing that we didn't
> get it initially, gave SPL to us for free, since it was no longer a product --
> and we've used it ever since (once we figured out how to use it; it's not all
> that obvious if you skipped your ALGOL classes in high school). Pascal
> displaced SPL as HP's preferred programming language for the HP3000, at least for a
> brief time.
>
> Now that essentially everything is obsolete, I would be pleased to put SPL up
> on our web server, in the same manner as we do BASIC/V, if someone in CSY
> would give us permission to do so. It certainly can't cause any harm to anyone
> [SPL may not even be on the price list any longer (it's come and gone several
> times)], but its presence there will do the homesteaders some good.
>
> BASIC is a fine language for high-speed development, but it's only useful for
> true commercial product development if a flurry of SPL routines are written
> to handle all of the speed- and efficiency-critical routines, especially I/O.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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