SCL -
1. System Control Language. Command language for the VME/B operating
system on the ICL2900. Block structured, strings, superstrings (lists of
strings), int, bool, array types. Can trigger a block whenever a condition
on a variable value occurs. Macros supported. Commands are treated like
procedure calls. Default arguments. "VME/B SCL Syntax", Intl Computers
Ltd 1980.
2. Symbolic Communication Language. Designed primarily for the
manipulaiton of symbolic formulas. Featured pattern matching (which was
partly the inspiration for SNOBOL), string operations in buffers, and
automatic storage management. "A Language for Symbolic Communication",
C.Y. Lee et al, Tech Mem 62-3344-4, Bell Labs, Sept 1962.
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