Turing programming language

Turing is a Pascal-like programming language developed in 1982 by Ric Holt and James Cordy, then of University of Toronto, Canada. It is a descendant of [Common Euclid]?. from Turing features a clean syntax and is used primarily as a teaching language at the high school and university level. Two other versions exist, Object-Oriented Turing and Turing Plus, a more robust implementation. Turing is available from Holt Software Associates in Toronto. Versions for Sun, MS-DOS and Macintosh are available.

A brief example of Turing is the following recursive function to calculate a factorial.

  function factorial(n:int):int
    if n = 0 then
      result = 1
    else
      result = n * factorial(n-1)
    end if
  end factorial

  put factorial(10)

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http://www.holtsoft.com/turing/home.html is the Turing home page.

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