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  • CPL User's guide

    From Dennis Boone@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 26 10:02:21 2018
    Do you mean CPL as in the language developed at Cambridge University in
    the 1960s?

    In Prime land, CPL is Prime's Command Procedure Language, the system
    scripting language starting at Rev 19. CPL, as does a fair amount
    of Primos, has interesting resemblances to Multics, in this case the
    exec_com scripting language.

    There is zero resemblance between Prime CPL and Cambridge CPL.

    (Someone can correct me by authoritatively mentioning when CPL appeared
    in Rev 18.x as an undocumented thing.)

    De

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  • From Dennis Boone@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 26 09:53:55 2018
    Anyone know where I can find a copy of the CPL 21.0 or other in
    any form paper/pdf/whatever?

    CPL Rev 21.0, DOC4302-3LA:

    http://yagi.h-net.msu.edu/prime_manuals/prirun_scans/CPL%20Users%20Guide%20Rev%2021%20DOC4302-3LA%201987.pdf

    The Rev 19.0 one is there too, and many other Prime manuals. The
    pocket guide is one directory up. Bitsavers also has some Prime doc.

    I have a compiler project and thought it would be fun to implement
    the CPL language. Something from my youth...

    ISTR this being a popular topic many years ago. :) Hope you'll
    share progress as you go along!

    De

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  • From Bob Eager@21:1/5 to Dennis Boone on Mon Feb 26 16:07:23 2018
    On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:02:21 -0600, Dennis Boone wrote:

    Do you mean CPL as in the language developed at Cambridge University in
    the 1960s?

    In Prime land, CPL is Prime's Command Procedure Language, the system scripting language starting at Rev 19. CPL, as does a fair amount of
    Primos, has interesting resemblances to Multics, in this case the
    exec_com scripting language.

    There is zero resemblance between Prime CPL and Cambridge CPL.

    (Someone can correct me by authoritatively mentioning when CPL appeared
    in Rev 18.x as an undocumented thing.)

    I thought it might be different. But I could have helped with the other
    one.

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  • From jojowil@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 26 07:30:33 2018
    Anyone know where I can find a copy of the CPL 21.0 or other in any form paper/pdf/whatever?

    I have a compiler project and thought it would be fun to implement the CPL language. Something from my youth...


    Thank you!

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  • From Bob Eager@21:1/5 to jojowil on Mon Feb 26 15:46:13 2018
    On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 07:30:33 -0800, jojowil wrote:

    Anyone know where I can find a copy of the CPL 21.0 or other in any form paper/pdf/whatever?

    I have a compiler project and thought it would be fun to implement the
    CPL language. Something from my youth...

    Do you mean CPL as in the language developed at Cambridge University in
    the 1960s?

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  • From mafsys1234@gmail.com@21:1/5 to joj...@gmail.com on Thu Mar 1 14:44:27 2018
    On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 2:30:33 AM UTC+11, joj...@gmail.com wrote:
    Anyone know where I can find a copy of the CPL 21.0 or other in any form paper/pdf/whatever?

    I have a compiler project and thought it would be fun to implement the CPL language. Something from my youth...


    Thank you!

    LOL! I wrote a conversion program (in C) from CPL to DEC's DCL back in the '90s when we were migrating from 9950s to VAXs. As I recall, the two languages were remarkably close.

    I even wrote a program to convert DCL to bourne shell on Unix much later (and much harder). So, the gist is most of these scripting languages are very similar.

    Memories...

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  • From Daiyu Hurst@21:1/5 to Dennis Boone on Tue Mar 13 19:49:24 2018
    On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 11:02:27 AM UTC-5, Dennis Boone wrote:
    Do you mean CPL as in the language developed at Cambridge University in
    the 1960s?

    In Prime land, CPL is Prime's Command Procedure Language, the system scripting language starting at Rev 19. CPL, as does a fair amount
    of Primos, has interesting resemblances to Multics, in this case the
    exec_com scripting language.

    There is zero resemblance between Prime CPL and Cambridge CPL.

    (Someone can correct me by authoritatively mentioning when CPL appeared
    in Rev 18.x as an undocumented thing.)

    Yes, CPL is present as early as the beta-release Rev 18.1.

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  • From Greg Field@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 4 18:35:21 2018
    I think Rev 17 was abbreviations, Rev 18 was CPL and Rev 19.4 was EPF's.

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  • From Daiyu Hurst@21:1/5 to Greg Field on Mon Aug 12 23:16:14 2019
    On Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 9:35:22 PM UTC-5, Greg Field wrote:
    I think Rev 17 was abbreviations, Rev 18 was CPL and Rev 19.4 was EPF's.

    ^ This is correct.

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