COMAL Dead
COMAL
KindProgramming language
Appeared1974
StatusDead
CreatorBørge Christensen & Benedict Løfstedt
FamilyBASIC
Also known asCOMAL 80
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗
Denmark's answer to unstructured BASIC — BASIC syntax married to Pascal's structures; a generation of Scandinavian schoolchildren learned to program in it.
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Børge Christensen's COMAL (1975) was Denmark's 'Common Algorithmic Language' — BASIC syntax plus Pascal structures, designed to teach structured programming on the same computers that taught BASIC.\n\nIt was standard in Danish schools through the 80s — the European structured-BASIC experiment.