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Transaction Application Language or TAL (originally Tandem Application Language) is a block-structured procedural language optimized for use on Tandem hardware. TAL resembles a cross between C and Pascal. It was the original system programming language for the Tandem CISC machines which had no assembler.The design concept of TAL an evolution of Hewlett Packard’s SPL was intimately associated and optimized with a microprogrammed CISC instruction set.