PROMAL is a programming language created in 1986.
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PROMAL (PROgrammer's Microapplication Language) is a structured programming language from Systems Management Associates for MS-DOS, Commodore 64, and Apple II. PROMAL features simple syntax, no line numbers, long variable names, functions and procedures with argument passing, real number type, arrays, strings, pointer, and a built-in I/O library. Like ABC and Python, indentation is part of the language syntax. Read more on Wikipedia...
PROGRAM SIEVE
; Sieve of Eratosthenes Benchmark
; test (BYTE magazine)
; 10 iterations, 1800 element array.
INCLUDE LIBRARY
CON SIZE=1800
WORD I
WORD J
WORD PRIME
WORD K
WORD COUNT
BYTE FLAGS[SIZE]
BEGIN
OUTPUT "10 ITERATIONS"
FOR J= 1 TO 10
COUNT=0
FILL FLAGS, SIZE, TRUE
FOR I= 0 TO SIZE
IF FLAGS[I]
PRIME=I+I+3
K=I+PRIME
WHILE K <= SIZE
FLAGS[K]=FALSE
K=K+PRIME
COUNT=COUNT+1
OUTPUT "#C#I PRIMES", COUNT
END
Feature | Supported | Example | Token |
---|---|---|---|
Booleans | ✓ | TRUE FALSE | |
Comments | ✓ | ; A comment | |
Line Comments | ✓ | ; A comment | ; |
Semantic Indentation | ✓ |