COMMON ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE

  

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COMMON ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE

Specialty Definition: COMMON ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE

DomainDefinition

Computing

COMmon Algorithmic Language (COMAL) A language for beginners developed by Benedict Loefstedt and Borge Christensen in 1973 and popular in Europe and Scandinavia. It has a Pascal-like structure added to BASIC. COMAL-80 has been adopted as an introductory language in Denmark. There is a version for the Amiga and a well-supported version for the PC, running under MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, called UniCOMAL. Recently, it has been developed as a web-scripting language called WebCOMAL. macharsoft (http://www.macharsoft.demon.co.uk/). There is a COMAL User's Group at 5501 Groveland Terr, Madison WI 53716, USA. ["Beginning COMAL", B. Christensen, Ellis Harwood 1982]. (2000-11-14). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: COMMON ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE

Specialty definitions using "COMMON ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE": Comal 80 ♦ UniCOMAL ♦ WebCOMAL. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: COMMON ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 4D 4D 4F 4E      41 4C 47 4F 52 49 54 48 4D 49 43      4C 41 4E 47 55 41 47 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01001101 01001101 01001111 01001110 00100000 01000001 01001100 01000111 01001111 01010010 01001001 01010100 01001000 01001101 01001001 01000011 00100000 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000111 01010101 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#77 &#77 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#65 &#76 &#71 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#84 &#72 &#77 &#73 &#67 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#85 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004D 004D 004F 004E      0041 004C 0047 004F 0052 0049 0054 0048 004D 0049 0043      004C 0041 004E 0047 0055 0041 0047 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3749474749482354641495243544247433724635484155354139

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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