SAIL (programming language): Difference between revisions

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SAIL's main feature is a symbolic data system based upon an associative store (based on the [[LEAP (programming language)|LEAP system]] of Jerry Feldman and Paul Rovner). Items may be stored as unordered sets or as associations (triples). Other features include processes, events and interrupts, contexts, [[backtracking]] and record garbage collection. It also has block-structured macros, a coroutining facility and some new data types intended for building search trees and association lists.

A number of interesting software systems were coded in SAIL, including some early versions of [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] and [[TeX]], a document formatting system called PUB,{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} and the first general purpose, interactive spreadsheet program called BRIGHT.<ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2578281/</ref>
<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=Aq2jBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA479&lpg=PA479&dq=BRIGHT+Decsystem10+nih&source=bl&ots=pxRbPeKBQC&sig=y4q2hkbxVrPUQOjAdIlLOwFpr0w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrguDS45bOAhUL8mMKHZwQBf0Q6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=BRIGHT%20Decsystem10%20nih&f=false</ref>

<ref>https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/BBGHLW.ocr</ref>

<ref>https://archive.org/stream/annualreportnati19851nati/annualreportnati19851nati_djvu.txt</ref>

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<ref>https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/BBGHMS.ocr</ref>

<ref>https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/G/H/L/W/_/bbghlw.pdf</ref>

<ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2578281/</ref>

In 1978, there were half a dozen different operating systems for the PDP-10: [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]] (MIT), [[WAITS]] (Stanford), [[TOPS-10]] (DEC), [[CMU TOPS-10]] (Carnegie Mellon), TENEX ([[Bolt, Beranek and Newman|BBN]]), and [[TOPS-20]] (DEC, based on TENEX).