COWSEL
COWSEL (COntrolled Working SpacE Language) is a programming language designed between 1964 and 1966 by Robin Popplestone. It was based on an RPN form of Lisp combined with some ideas from CPL.
| Developer | Burstall, Popplestone |
|---|---|
| First appeared | 1964 |
| Influenced by | |
| CPL, Lisp | |
| Influenced | |
| POP-2 | |
COWSEL was initially implemented on a Ferranti Pegasus computer at the University of Leeds and on a Stantec Zebra at the Bradford Institute of Technology; later, Rod Burstall implemented it on an Elliot 4120 at the University of Edinburgh.
COWSEL was renamed POP-1 during the summer of 1966 and development continued under that name from then on.
Example code
function member
lambda x y
comment Is x a member of list y;
define y atom then *0 end
y hd x equal then *1 end
y tl -> y repeat up
Note that keywords were also underlined in the original printouts. Popplestone used a Flexowriter with underscoring for syntax highlighting.
gollark: It's one of those unfalsifiable things, but you can't say that it *definitely isn't* true because of that.
gollark: Perhaps in the real reality™ atoms don't exist and everything is made of very small bees.
gollark: You can be *practically* sure, but not *absolutely* sure inasmuch as, again, you could be in a simulation or being fed fake sensations somehow.
gollark: “i used to think correlation implied causation. then i found wikipedia. now i dont.”
gollark: Or, well, practical everyday ones, stuff like GPS has to compensate for relativity.
References
- Technical report: EPU-R-12, U Edinburgh (Apr 1966)
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