pop-11

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pop-11 - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Pop-11
  
     <language> A programming language created by Robin Popplestone
     in 1975, originally for the PDP-11.  Pop-11 is
     stack-oriented, extensible, and efficient like FORTH.  It
     is also functional, dynamically typed, interactive, with
     garbage collection like LISP, and the syntax is block structured
      like Pascal.
  
     ["Programming in POP-11", J. Laventhol <jcl@deshaw.com>,
     Blackwell 1987].
  
     AlphaPop is an implementation for the Macintosh from
     Computable Functions Inc.  PopTalk and POPLOG from the
     University of Sussex are available for VAX/VMS and most
     workstations.
  
     E-mail: Robin Popplestone <pop@cs.umass.edu>
  
     (2003-03-25)