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Re: SPL/3000 (was Re: Alternatives to C)

From	Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.misc, alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: SPL/3000 (was Re: Alternatives to C)
Date	2026-08-29 15:19 -0300
Organization	Primarily biological and memetic
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Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> writes:
> On 2026-08-28 12:18, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> There are a bunch of manuals here:
>>     <https://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/3000/>
>
> Unfortunately, at a cursory glance it seems that the excerpt quoted is
> all comments and declarations, so it does not show anything that turns
> into executable code.
>
> So we have not seen how the language is close to the stack architecture.

Take a look at things like
<https://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/3000/spl/30000-90025_System_Programming_Language_Textbook_197709.pdf#page=75>
to get more of the flavor of the language.  Unlike our honorable
correspondent Scott Lurndal, I don’t have any experience with it, but it
looks very Algolish.

Kragen

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Re: SPL/3000 (was Re: Alternatives to C) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-28 15:28 -0300
  Re: SPL/3000 (was Re: Alternatives to C) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-08-28 19:18 +0000
    Re: SPL/3000 (was Re: Alternatives to C) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-28 21:13 -0300
    Re: SPL/3000 (was Re: Alternatives to C) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-08-29 06:14 -0700
      Re: SPL/3000 (was Re: Alternatives to C) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-29 15:19 -0300

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