Pop-11


Pop-11

(language)A programming language created by Robin Popplestonein 1975, originally for the PDP-11. Pop-11 isstack-oriented, extensible, and efficient like FORTH. Itis also functional, dynamically typed, interactive, withgarbage collection like LISP, and the syntax is block structured like Pascal.

["Programming in POP-11", J. Laventhol ,Blackwell 1987].

AlphaPop is an implementation for the Macintosh fromComputable Functions Inc. PopTalk and POPLOG from theUniversity of Sussex are available for VAX/VMS and mostworkstations.

E-mail: Robin Popplestone