Brown University Interactive Language (BRUIN) was an introductory
programming language
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The description of a programming l ...
developed at
Brown University in the late 1960s. It operated in the
IBM 360
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, and was similar to
PL/1. The abstract of R. G. Munck's document, "Meeting the Computational Requirements of the University, Brown University Interactive Language" describes BRUIN as "a
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* JOSS, a time-sharing programming language
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-like interpreter and a
WATFOR
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-Like
compiler
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and has a syntax very much like PL/I. It is intended that BRUIN and PL/I will together form a language system which will supply most of the (non-computer science) computational requirements of the university."
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