Minicomputer programming languages

Authors:
Walter Gorman;Michael Broussard
Affiliations:
University of Southwestern Louisiana;University of Southwestern Louisiana
Venue:
SIGMINI '76 Proceedings of the ACM SIGMINI/SIGPLAN interface meeting on Programming systems in the small processor environment
Year:
1976

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Abstract

Reduced hardware costs have made high level languages for minicomputers a necessity. A survey of some of the languages available (FORTRAN, BASIC, FOCAL, PL-11, C, SPL, MPL, PLM, and BCPL) demonstrates the current need for a simple, portable, and readable minicomputer language.