Everything about FOCAL (programming language)

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: FOCAL (programming language)A 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: User's guide to FOCALThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Go sideways: JOSSA closely related topic
4. Go sideways: BASIC-8A closely related topic

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📚 Books worth reading

• 📕User's guide to FOCALDavid Ensor · 1968
• 📕FOCAL on the PDP-9 computerS. H. Whitlow · 1973

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