Cesil - Programming language

Cesil is a programming language created in 1974.

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50Years Old

Cesil, or Computer Education in Schools Instruction Language, was a programming language designed to introduce pupils in British schools to Assembly language. It is a low level language containing a total of fourteen instructions: Load value - place the immediate value or the contents of the variable named in the accumulator. Store variable - place the contents of the accumulator in the variable. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Early development of Cesil happened in International Computers Limited
See also: (1 related languages) Assembly language

Example from hello-world:

        PRINT   "Hello World"
        HALT
%
*

Example from Wikipedia:

LOAD    0
LOOP    STORE   TOTAL
        IN
        JINEG   DONE
        ADD     TOTAL
        JUMP    LOOP

DONE    PRINT   "The total is: "
        LOAD    TOTAL
        OUT
        LINE
        HALT

        %
        1
        2
        3
        -1

[Output of above program running...]
        The total is:  6

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		PRINT