COWSEL

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@@ -35187,6 +35187,25 @@ Control Language
 
 	(2000-04-08)
 
+COntrolled Working SpacE Language
+
+	<language> (COWSEL) A programming language, developed by {Rod Burstall}
+	and {Robin Popplestone} at the {University of Edinburgh} in 1964-66.
+	COWSEL was a form of {Lisp} with {reverse Polish notation} syntax,
+	combined with some ideas from {Combined Programming Language} (CPL).
+
+	COWSEL was initially implemented on a {Ferranti Pegasus} computer at the {University
+	of Leeds} and on a {Stantec Zebra} at the {Bradford Institute of Technology}.  Later,
+	{Rod Burstall} implemented it on an {Elliot 4120} at the {University of Edinburgh}.
+
+	COWSEL was renamed {POP-1} in the Summer of 1966.
+
+	[EPU-R-12, U Edinburgh, Apr 1966].
+
+	{(https://web.archive.org/web/20080906044133/http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage2.prx?exp=196)}
+
+	(2024-08-03)
+
 controller
 
 	<hardware> Part of a computer, typically a separate circuit
@@ -36566,36 +36585,34 @@ Coursewriter III
 
 cowboy
 
-	[Sun, from William Gibson's {cyberpunk} SF]  Synonym
-	for {hacker}.  It is reported that at Sun this word is often
-	said with reverence.
+	(From William Gibson's {cyberpunk} SF) Synonym for {hacker}.
+	At {Sun Microsystems} this word was once used with reverence.
 
 	[{Jargon File}]
 
+	(2024-08-03)
+
 COWSEL
 
-	COntrolled Working SpacE Language.  Burstall and Popplestone,
-	U Edinburgh, 1964-66.  LISP-like semantics with FORTH-like
-	stack, and reverse Polish syntax.  Forerunner of POP.
-	EPU-R-12, U Edinburgh (Apr 1966).
+	{COntrolled Working SpacE Language}
 
 CP
 
-	A concurrent Prolog.
+	<languate> A {concurrent} {Prolog}.
+
+	["The Concurrent Logic Programming Language CP": Definition and
+	Operational Semantics", V. Saraswat, 14th POPL, ACM 1987, pp.49-62].
 
-	"The Concurrent Logic Programming Language CP": Definition and
-	Operational Semantics", V. Saraswat, 14th POPL, ACM 1987,
-	pp.49-62.
+	(2024-08-03)
 
 CPAN
 
 	{Comprehensive Perl Archive Network}
 
 CParaOps5
 
-	<language> A {parallel} version of {OPS5} written at CMU, in
-	{C} and compiling to C.  CParaOps5 is available for {Unix},
-	{Mach}, {Encore Multimaxen}, and {Sequent}.
+<language> A {parallel} version of {OPS5} written at CMU, in {C} and compiling to
+C.  CParaOps5 is available for {Unix}, {Mach}, {Encore Multimaxen} and {Sequent}.
 
 	{(http://cs.ucsb.edu/~acha/software.html)}.