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I guess the original TAL is not making a comeback:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Application_Langua...

I was wondering if somebody would remember the original.

I programmed in TAL many moons ago at a bank - a MIPS Tandem system running Guardian OS.

I did a tiny bit in the late '90s at Mastercard. Wrote my share of TACL macros before that.

When I first saw the "99 Bottles of Beer" site, I was working for a company the was using the POSIX-layer OSS and C. I was able to "drop down" into Guardian and re-learn enough to contribute: https://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-tandem-tal-437.html

We ran BASE24 at the time (EFT switch) and customized parts of it.

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