Programmed Instruction, Learning, Or Teaching (PILOT) is a simle historic programming language developed in the 1960s. Like its younger sibling LOGO programming language, it was an early foray into the technology of computer assisted instruction (CAI).
PILOT was developed by John Amsden Starkweather, a psychology professor at the University of California, San Francisco medical center. In 1962 he developed a simple language for automating learnng tests called Computest. Starting in 1968, he developed a follow-on project called PILOT, for various computers of the time such as the SDS 940.
A line of PILOT code contains (from left to right) the following syntax elements:
A label can also be alone in a line, not followed by other code. The syntax for a label is an asterisk followed by an identifier (alphanumeric string with alphabetic initial character).
The following commands are used in “core PILOT”. Lines beginning with “R:” indicate a remark (or a comment) explaining the code that…
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