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SIMPL(ID:7075/sim063)

Family of extensible structured languages 

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Country: United States
Designed 1972
Sammet category: Specialised Languages

Victor Basili et al, University of Maryland at College Park, 1970s

Language of structured programming languages designed to be the opposite of PL/I (ie instead of having one language do everything, have a family of languages that did everything, with one language for each purpose) yet partaking of the same language form.

The highlights of the family were the SL/I language at the Langley Star computer (which vindicated the theoretical approach of extensibility and transportability), and the SIMPL-Q language (which became a staple for the US Navy).

Despite the family tree below, SIMPL-T was in fact created as an extension of SIMPL-X

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Related languages
BCPL → SIMPL   Influence
NELIAC → SIMPL   Influence
XPL → SIMPL   Influence
SIMPL → SIMPL-X   Bootstrap implementation
References:
  • R. Noonan, V. Basili, R. Hamlet, M. Lay, D. Mills, (1973) R. Noonan, V. Basili, R. Hamlet, M. Lay, D. Mills, J. Turner, M. Zelkowitz "A SIMPL Distributed Operating System and Its Formal Definition"
          in [SIGPLAN] (1973) SIGPLAN Notices 8(09) June 1973 Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN - SIGOPS interface meeting on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Savannah, Georgia, 1973
  • Basili, Victor R., The SIMPL Family of Programming (1974) Basili, Victor R., The SIMPL Family of Programming Languages and Compilers, University of Maryland, Computer Science Center, Technical Rept, TR-305 (June 1974). Picture: Family tree of SIMPL languages Abstract Extract: Introduction Extract: Motivation Extract: Conclusion
          in [SIGPLAN] (1973) SIGPLAN Notices 8(09) June 1973 Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN - SIGOPS interface meeting on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Savannah, Georgia, 1973
  • Hamlet, R. G. and Zelkowitz, M. V. (1974) Hamlet, R. G. and Zelkowitz, M. V. "SIMPL systems programming on a minicomputer", pp203-206 Extract: Introduction Extract: Reuirements of SIMPL Extract: The nature of HGL
          in Hamlet, R. G. and Zelkowitz, M. V. (1974) Hamlet, R. G. and Zelkowitz, M. V. "SIMPL systems programming on a minicomputer", pp203-206
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