C/AL - Programming language

C/AL is a programming language created in 1987 by Michael Nielsen.

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C/AL (Client/server Application Language) is the programming language used within C/SIDE the Client/Server Integrated Development Environment in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Formerly known as Navision Attain). C/AL is a Database specific programming language, and is primarily used for retrieving, inserting and modifying records in a Navision database. C/AL resembles the Pascal language on which it is based. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Early development of C/AL happened in Microsoft
See also: (1 related languages) Pascal

Example from Wikipedia:

Item.RESET;
  Item.SETRANGE("Blocked",TRUE);
  IF Item.FINDSET THEN
    REPEAT
      IF Item."Profit %" < 20 THEN BEGIN
        Item."Profit %" := 20;
        Item.MODIFY(TRUE);
      END;
    UNTIL Item.NEXT = 0;
  Item.MODIFYALL("Blocked",FALSE);

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Booleans	✓		TRUE FALSE