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COWSEL programming language

COWSEL is the COntrolled Working SpacE Language. Between 1964 and 1966, it was designed and implemented by Robin Popplestone, initially on a Ferranti Pegasus computer at the University of Leeds and on a Stantec Zebra at the Bradford Institute of Technology; later with Rod Burstall on an Elliot 4120 at the University of Edinburgh. It was based on a reverse Polish form of Lisp combined with some ideas from CPL. In the summer of 1966 it was renamed POP-1 and development continued under that name.

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

Reference

Technical report: EPU-R-12, U Edinburgh (Apr 1966).

External link

http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/~pop/pop_development --The Early Development of POP



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