tool: pilot

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Language:	PILOT
Version:	1.6
Parts:	compiler(->C), interpreter, library, documentation, examples, tutorial, test suite.
Author:	Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Location:	ftp://locke.ccil.org:pub/retro/pilot-1.6.shar.gz (in the Museum of Retrocomputing)
Description:	PILOT is a primitive CAI language first designed in 1962 on IBM mainframes. It is rather weak and has very odd lexical rules, but is easy to learn and use. I wrote this implementation strictly as a hack, but it works and does include an interactive tutorial written in PILOT itself which is also a decent test load. This implementation is both an interpreter for the PILOT language and a compiler for it using C as an intermediate language.
Conformance:	Reference implementation of the IEEE Standard for PILOT, 1154-1191
Bugs:	report to Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Restrictions:	If you plan to make money from it, contact the author.
Portability:	Any ANSI C host.
Announcements:	comp.lang.misc,alt.lang.intercal
Updated:	October 16th, 1994

language: PILOT

category: educational summary, or expanded.

category: scripting languages summary, or expanded.