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  1. history - Whatever happened to the Refal language? - Retrocomputing ...

    Oct 29, 2020 · Refal is a language from the 1960s that is based on the concept of pattern-matching with many features that could be considered advanced even today- it is functional, garbage collected, and …

  2. What hardware did advanced programming languages run on?

    Feb 8, 2020 · Refal is even older; its runtime engine is very small, and it was used on mainframes with as little as a few dozen Kb of RAM accessible to a user process. No magic there.

  3. history - Pattern matching, which language first had it ...

    Aug 29, 2017 · Refal (conceived 1966, implemented 1968) is a language built upon the idea of structured pattern-matching. A function definition is a sequence of constructs "pattern = …

  4. Newest 'software-development' Questions - Retrocomputing Stack …

    Whatever happened to the Refal language? software-development Daniel Moskovich 163 Oct 29, 2020 at 18:16 18 Omar and Lorraine Jun 14, 2020 at 20:29 14