From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:24:37 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Correct the derivation. X-Git-Tag: 1.7~7 X-Git-Url: http://thyrsus.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4db167ece4f4ca33eda06c088d244b37fd269fb0;p=cupl.git Correct the derivation. --- diff --git a/README b/README index 91e9303..e33a03a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Cornell Computing Language, the immediate ancestor of CUPL. CUPL was an early (1966) teaching language implemented as a batch compiler on the IBM/360 at Cornell University. It was descended from an earlier (1962) experimental language called CORC (CORnell Compiler), which was in turn derived -from PL/1. +loosely from Algol-58 (not, as previously asseeted here, PL/1). CUPL has only one scalar type, a long floating-point real corresponding to C double. It supports vector and matrix aggregates, and has operations diff --git a/cupl.xml b/cupl.xml index dfda866..e5d5c63 100644 --- a/cupl.xml +++ b/cupl.xml @@ -41,8 +41,9 @@ dumped. A suffix of y enables parser debugging messages. CUPL was an early (1966) teaching language implemented as a batch compiler on the IBM/360 at Cornell University. It was descended from an earlier (1962) experimental language called CORC (CORnell -Compiler), which was in turn derived from PL/1. Statements made -without qualification about CUPL below also apply to CORC. +Compiler), which was in turn derived loosely from Algol-58. +Statements made without qualification about CUPL below also apply to +CORC. CUPL is documented in CUPL: The Cornell University Programming Language, by R.J. Walker, a manual first