Date   : Tue, 18 Jun 1985 00:46:41-PDT
From   : Sam Hahn <Samuel@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Request for languages which run under CP/M

Cheryl --

I am more than happy to help.  CP/M has been too quickly forgotten in
exchange for something no better.  Here are my contributions:

Name of language:      TLC-Lisp
Source:                        The Lisp Company
Cost:                  ~ $100 ( I could be off here. )
Summary of usability (about 50 words):  Runs on Z80 2.2 systems.
Classes, packages, auto-load objects, closures, and several other
non-vanilla features.
Other comments (about 50 words; optional):  Written by John Allen, who
wrote "The Anatomy of Lisp".  Includes many features of Lisp machine
Lisp, and is definitely not a toy.

Name of language:      APL
Source:                        McGraw Hill book
Cost:                  ~$25.00 (source in the book)
Summary of usability (about 50 words): unknown
Other comments (about 50 words; optional):

Name of language:      XLisp
Source:                        Public domain
Cost:                  Free
Summary of usability (about 50 words):  Good as educational vehicle
Other comments (about 50 words; optional):  Some implementation of
object-oriented features.

Name of language:      Cobol
Source:                        Microsoft
Cost:                  ~$300 (???)
Summary of usability (about 50 words): unknown
Other comments (about 50 words; optional): supposed to be best
available for 2.2

Name of language:      Pilot
Source:                        Public domain
Cost:                  free
Summary of usability (about 50 words): unknown
Other comments (about 50 words; optional):

Name of language:      370 Assembly (no kidding)
Source:                        MMS Inc
Cost:                  ~ $200.00 (???)
Summary of usability (about 50 words): Large subset of 370 instruction
set.  Runs as emulator in 2.2.
Other comments (about 50 words; optional):  Not widely available.

Name of language:      PL/1 Subset G
Source:                        Digital Research
Cost:                  ~ $400.00
Summary of usability (about 50 words): Subset G implementation of PL/1
used in-house for OS work before policy changed to C.
Other comments (about 50 words; optional):

Name of language:      cross-assemblers for all (almost) chips
Source:                        SLR systems, 2500 AD Software
Cost:                  wide range: 100 - 300+
Summary of usability (about 50 words): unknown
Other comments (about 50 words; optional):

Name of language:      MEX
Source:                        Public Domain (Ron Fowler)
Cost:                  free
Summary of usability (about 50 words): is a modem program, but has
such an extensive command set and the capability of "script" programs
that it is almost a telecommunications language.  Author was working
on conditional statements for the next version.
Other comments (about 50 words; optional): Best telecomm program
around for any machine.

                                       -- Hope this helps,
                                               Sam Hahn