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''Programmable Command Language''' (PCL) was created at Carnegie Mellon University to enable the development of new commands to be invoked from the command line of DEC [[TOPS-20]] mainframes, which were in heavy use in universities from the late 1970s through the 1980s.

TOPS-20 had a very advanced command line interface with some user-friendly features such as context-sensitive help and suggested command completion while a command was being input from a terminal. PCL allowed developers to interface with this system to provide similar help and completion functions for the commands tbey were developing.

A set of structured programming constructs, described in the reference guide as "[[ALGOL]]-like", was provided, along with commands geared toward specific TOPS-20 features including access to its filesystem.

== References ==
* [http://www.math.utah.edu/~bowman/pcl.txt PCL reference guide]

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 '''Programmable Command Language''' (PCL) was created at Carnegie Mellon University to enable the development of new commands to be invoked from the command line of DEC [[TOPS-20]] mainframes, which were in heavy use in universities from the late 1970s through the 1980s. It is not connected with the printer command language [[PCL]].
-TOPS-20 had a very advanced command line interface with some user-friendly features such as context-sensitive help and suggested command completion while a command was being input from a terminal. PCL allowed developers to interface with this system to provide similar help and completion functions for the commands tbey were developing.
+TOPS-20 had a very advanced command line interface with some user-friendly features such as context-sensitive help and suggested command completion while a command was being input from a terminal. PCL allowed developers to interface with this system to provide similar help and completion functions for the commands they were developing.
 A set of structured programming constructs, described in the reference guide as "[[ALGOL]]-like", was provided, along with commands geared toward specific TOPS-20 features including access to its filesystem.

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+'''Programmable Command Language''' (PCL) was created at Carnegie Mellon University to enable the development of new commands to be invoked from the command line of DEC [[TOPS-20]] mainframes, which were in heavy use in universities from the late 1970s through the 1980s. It is not connected with the printer command language [[PCL]].
 '''Programmable Command Language''' (PCL) was created at Carnegie Mellon University to enable the development of new commands to be invoked from the command line of DEC [[TOPS-20]] mainframes, which were in heavy use in universities from the late 1970s through the 1980s.
 TOPS-20 had a very advanced command line interface with some user-friendly features such as context-sensitive help and suggested command completion while a command was being input from a terminal. PCL allowed developers to interface with this system to provide similar help and completion functions for the commands tbey were developing.

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-''Programmable Command Language'' (PCL) was created at Carnegie Mellon University to enable the development of new commands to be invoked from the command line of DEC [[TOPS-20]] mainframes, which were in heavy use in universities from the late 1970s through the 1980s.
+'''Programmable Command Language''' (PCL) was created at Carnegie Mellon University to enable the development of new commands to be invoked from the command line of DEC [[TOPS-20]] mainframes, which were in heavy use in universities from the late 1970s through the 1980s.
 TOPS-20 had a very advanced command line interface with some user-friendly features such as context-sensitive help and suggested command completion while a command was being input from a terminal. PCL allowed developers to interface with this system to provide similar help and completion functions for the commands tbey were developing.

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	== References ==		== References ==
	* [http://www.math.utah.edu/~bowman/pcl.txt PCL reference guide]		* [http://www.math.utah.edu/~bowman/pcl.txt PCL reference guide]
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 A set of structured programming constructs, described in the reference guide as "[[ALGOL]]-like", was provided, along with commands geared toward specific TOPS-20 features including access to its filesystem.
 == References ==
 * [http://www.math.utah.edu/~bowman/pcl.txt PCL reference guide]

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