The CAMIL programming language

This paper briefly descrbes the Computer Assisted/Managed Instructional Language (CAMIL), a language developed for applications in computer assisted and computer managed instruction. The language is general purpose in that it is also usable for systems and applications programming. To provide a truly general purpose capability, a design which divides the language into two sublanguages, Basic and Extended CAMIL, was implemented. Covered in the paper are (1) the portions of the language which are unique to CAMIL and which deviate from the traditional constructs found in many languages (including an implementation of data abstractions which serves as an alternative to the approach taken in CLU and ALPHARD); and (2) short descriptions of constructs available which are similar to or deviate slightly from traditional language constructs.