Date   : Tue, 18 Jun 1985 00:46:41-PDT
From   : Sam Hahn <Samuel@...>
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