Computing Dictionary
Pop-11 definition
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
, 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
(2003-03-25)
