Pop-11

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 blockstructured like Pascal.

["Programming in POP-11", J. Laventhol [e-mail],

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 [e-mail]

(2003-03-25)