ELAN is an interpreted

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for learning and teaching systematic programming. It was developed in 1974 by C.H.A. Koster and a group at the Technical University of Berlin as an alternative to

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in teaching, and approved for use in secondary schools in

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by the "Arbeitskreis Schulsprache". It was in use until the late 1980s in a number of schools in Germany,

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, the

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, and

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for informatics teaching in secondary education, and used at the

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in the Netherlands for teaching systematic programming to students from various disciplines and in teacher courses. The language design focuses strongly on

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, and has a special construction for stepwise refinement, allowing students to focus on

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design, and bottom-up coding. The

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Eumel EUMEL (pronounced ''oimel'' for Extendable Multi User Microprocessor ELAN System and also known as L2 for Liedtke 2) is an operating system (OS) which began as a runtime system (environment) for the programming language ELAN. It was created in 1 ...

began as a

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(environment) for ELAN.

External links

ELAN implementation built by the Radboud University Nijmegen
* tp://ftp.cs.ru.nl/pub/vb/ ELAN implementation download sitebr>Dresden uni on ELAN
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