Re: Event based language, does it exist?

Norman Culver <Norman_member@newsguy.com>
8 Sep 2000 02:31:59 -0400

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From: Norman Culver <Norman_member@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 8 Sep 2000 02:31:59 -0400
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References: 00-08-132 00-09-016
Keywords: design, history

>>I'm trying to find a language which is based solely on events, but I
>>do not know if it exists. What I do know is, that there is a whole lot
>>of languages out there, so it should be strange if there isn't an
>>event based one :-)


In 1968 a company by the name of Agrippa Ord in Acton MA wrote a
language called SCAT (State Change Algorithm Terminology) for Grayson
Stadler of Concord MA. The language was used to run racks of logic
cards which controlled scientific experiments. Grayson Stadler has a
web site at http://www.grayson-stadler.com


I'm pretty sure that the language is long dead because it was
implemented to run on a 4K PDP8 but there might still be some old
documentation that they would be willing to provide.


It may have been ported by GenRad to a PDP11 which ran their board
testers. So it may be alive and well and running on modern hardware by
now. The porting engineer's name was Greg Andrews.

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