Date   : Fri, 26 Jun 1987 09:07:47 MDT
From   : Raymond Carter STEWS-NR-AS 678-1376 <rcarter@wsmr02.ARPA>
Subject: COMAL

Available now are both MS-DOS and CP/M demo versions of the COMAL programming 
language.  These are full implementations except that the SAVE function has
been disabled.  There are several sample programs included.  Feel free to
make copies and pass them around!  List price of the real thing is $69.95
+ $5 shipping from:
  COMAL Users Group USA
  6041 Monona Drive
  Madison WI  53716
Price is $49.95 plus shipping for COMAL Today subscribers - CP/M version
is now shipping, MS-DOS should be ready soon.

WHAT IS COMAL?

Briefly, it is a programming language designed to combine the best features of
BASIC and Pascal.  It was designed by a professor in Denmark, and is now the
official first programming language taught in several European countries.
Until recently, available here only for COMMODORE computers, and an
expensive($500) IBM version;  it is the most often purchased language for
the C64.

The language offers an interactive environment like BASIC, but offers logn
variable names, named procedures and functions, parameter passing, local and
global variables, and four loop structures (FOR, REPEAT-UNTIL, WHILE-ENDWHILE,
and LOOP-ENDLOOP).  It is the only structured language I know of with system
forced indents - your structures are all properly indented by the system!
You'll appreciate that if you ever have to modify your programs.  It also
provides three easy methods for interfacing ML routines - I already have
written an RGB graphics package (640X200) for C128 CP/M+.

Look for DEMCOMAL.LBR on GEnie or on SIMTEL.

Try it, you'll like it!