Jump to content

Business application language

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rfc1394 (talk | contribs) at 19:10, 3 April 2007. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
B.A.L. redirects here. For the IBM mainframe Assembly language, see Basic assembly language; for other topics see BAL

In computer programming, BAL (an acronym for Business Application Language) refers to a high-level programming language similar to BASIC.

It was originally defined by Honeywell in 1973 and the major diffusion was in their system '80-'90 in Europe with the work of French firm Prologue S.A. that used BAL for programming on their proprietary Operative System (Prologue).
In 1976 the language was ported to the Unix platform. The first development environment, named Balix, are distributed starting in 1978 in Italy and France. An improved version was developed from Prologue S.A., named ABAL, in 1992.
Another major improvment was the evolution from Balix, developed in Italy, called B2U (an acronym for Business under UNIX) developed by GuyPes, that are used for a Banking Information System that are used by one hundred banks in Italy.

Stub icon

This computing article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Business_application_language&oldid=120040531"