SMALL

This article is about an ALGOL-like programming language. For the scripting language formerly named Small, see Pawn (programming language).

SMALL, Small Machine Algol Like Language, is a programming language developed by Dr. Nevil Brownlee of Auckland University.

History

The aim of the language was to enable people to write ALGOL-like code that ran on a small machine. It also included the string type for easier text manipulation.

SMALL was used extensively from about 1980 to 1985 at Auckland University as a programming teaching aid, and for some internal projects. Originally written to run on a Borroughs 6700 Main frame in Fortran IV, subsequently rewritten in SMALL and ported to a DEC PDP-10 Architecture (on the Operating System TOPS-10) and IBM S360 Architecture (on the Operating System VM/CMS).

About 1985 SMALL had some object oriented features added to handle structures (that were missing from the early language), and to formalise file manipulation operations.

See also

• ALGOL
• Lua programming language
• Squirrel programming language

References

• Nevil Brownlee