CHILL, whose name expands to CCITT High Level Language, is a procedural programming language designed for use in telecommunication switches, the hardware inside telephone exchanges. The Programming Language Database dates its creation to 1980 and records that its early development happened at the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector, the standards body that succeeded the CCITT. The language is still used for legacy systems in some telecommunication companies and for signal box programming, which makes it an example of a language tied to one industry rather than to general purpose software. It is similar in size and complexity to the original Ada language. The database lists COBOL, Ada, PLEX and Erlang as related languages, and notes that CHILL appears in the TIOBE Index, the monthly ranking of programming language popularity.
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CHILL is a programming language created in 1980.
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