Business application language

Business Application Language (BAL) refers to one of many offshoots of the BASIC language and should not be confused with IBM's well-established Basic assembly language.

History[]

Business Application Language 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 that used BAL for programming on their proprietary Operative System (Prologue).

In 1986 the language was ported to the Unix platform by . The first development environment, named Balix, are distributed starting in 1988 in Italy and France. A different evolution path was made by Prologue S.A., named ABAL, in 1992.

The evolution of Balix, developed in Italy, is called ^[1] (an acronym for Business under UNIX) developed by , and are used for a Banking Information System that are used by one hundred banks in Italy.

References[]

^ Guido ing. Pes (PN/Italy) (10 October 2008). "Introduzione". Business under Unix (B2U) (in Italian). Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.

External links[]

GuyPes: http://www.guypes.it
GuyPes B2U: http://b2u.guypes.it/

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[1] Guido ing. Pes (PN/Italy) (10 October 2008). "Introduzione". Business under Unix (B2U) (in Italian). Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.

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