(COMAL) A language for beginners developed by
Benedict Loefstedt and Borge Christensen in 1973 and popular
in Europe and Scandinavia. It has a
Pascal-like structure
added to
BASIC. COMAL-80 has been adopted as an
introductory language in Denmark.
There is a version for the
Amiga and a well-supported
version for the
PC, running under
MS-DOS and
Microsoft Windows, called UniCOMAL. Recently, it has been developed as
a web-scripting language called WebCOMAL.
macharsoft.
There is a COMAL User's Group at 5501 Groveland Terr, Madison
WI 53716, USA.
["Beginning COMAL", B. Christensen, Ellis Harwood 1982].