SMALL is a Algol Like programming language developed by Dr. Nevil Brownlee of Auckland University. The aim of the language was to provide an Algol Like language that ran on a small machine. It also included the string type for easy text manipulation.

SMALL was used extensively from about 1980 to 1985 at Auckland University as a programming teaching aid, and for some internal projects. Originally written to run on a Boroughs 6700 Main Frame in Fortran IV(), subsequently rewritten in SMALL and ported to a DEC PDP-10 Architecture (on the Operating System TOPS-10) and IBM S360 Architecture (on the Operating System VM/Conversational_Monitor_System).

About 1985 SMALL had some object oriented features added to handle structures (That were missing from the early language), and to formalise file manipulation operations.

=Other programming languages called SMALL=

CompuPhase [http://www.compuphase.com/small.htm SMALL] is a simple, typeless, 32-bit extension language with a C-like syntax. It is designed to be useful as an embedded programming language and is distributed under a liberal zLib/libpng license. This language is useful as a safer environment within or alongside the C programming language, for instance as a scripting language in games programming or on resource-limited systems.

=See also=

*ALGOL programming language *Lua programming language *Squirrel programming language

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