Business application language
Business Application Language refers to one of many offshoots of the BASIC language and should not be confused with IBM's well-established Basic assembly language.
Business Application Language was originally defined by Honeywell in 1973 and the major diffusion was in their system '80-'90 in Europe with the work of French firm Prologue S.A. that used BAL for programming on their proprietary Operative System.
In 1986 the language was ported to the Unix platform by . The first development environment, named Balix, are distributed starting in 1988 in Italy and France. A different evolution path was made by Prologue S.A., named ABAL, in 1992.
The evolution of Balix, developed in Italy, is called developed by , and are used for a Banking Information System that are used by one hundred banks in Italy.
