A MULTILINGUAL INTERPRETER for interactive computing in an academic environment

In order to satisfy three types of terminal users, student programmers, production users and CAI authors, Western Washington State College has developed a MULTILINGUAL INTERPRETER. The MULTILINGUAL INTERPRETER allows PL/I, BASIC and COURSEWRITER III to be run on a single terminal system. The configuration of the language processor is such that programs can be prepared in more than one source language. The main purpose of this development is to provide advanced programming features not only to the non-CAI programmer, but to the CAI programmer as well. This paper describes the steps taken in the development of this system and the system's language mixing capabilities.