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# QL Languages

With some recent ports of AWK and LISP to the QL, I wondered exactly how many languages are available for the QL. I then look thought some older QL World’s, an older copy of the QUANTA library, and the IFE library to see what I could find. Below is a list of the languages I found. Commercial packages are marked with a $ after them. Those with a * are available from the QHJ. On the Shareware/Freeware packages, I’ve documented where they’ve come from.

SuperBasic Compilers

- QLiberator ($)
- Turbo ($)
- Supercharge ($)

C

- C68 (*) QUBBESoft
- Small-C (*) QUANTA
- Metacomco Lattice C ($)
- Digital Precision C ($)
- DP C Special Edition ($)

Pascal

- Metacomco Pascal ($)
- Computer One Pascal ($)
- Pro Pascal ($)

Forth

- Forth-79 (*)
- QUANTA e-Forth (*)
- Digital SuperForth ($)

BCPL

- Metacomco BCPL ($)

Fortran

- Pro Fortran 77 ($)

Lisp

- Metacomco Lisp ($)
- WS-Lisp (*) QUANTA
- Xlisp (two versions) IFE

Prolog

- QL-Prolog (*) IFE

APL

- Metacomco APL ($)

LOGO

- Logo (*) IFE

AWK

- GNU AWK (*)