STILL HERE.

STILL RUNNING.

RECALL is a declarative web interface language with COBOL-inspired syntax. It transpiles to self-contained, dependency-free HTML files. The source is always embedded in the output.

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GET STARTED
npm install -g @semanticintent/recall
recall compile portfolio.rcl
DESIGN PRINCIPLES

What RECALL believes.

THE SOURCE IS THE ARTIFACT

Every compiled .html file embeds its .rcl source in a comment block at the top. View source on any RECALL page and you will see COBOL divisions.

CORE

ZERO DEPENDENCIES

Output is one HTML file. Inline CSS. Vanilla JS where needed. No CDN links. No frameworks. No build step to run the result.

CONSTRAINT

VERBOSE IS A FEATURE

COBOL's English-like verbosity is intentional legibility. A RECALL source file reads like a structured document. The intent is visible without a comment.

PHILOSOPHY

LEGACY FORWARD

This is not nostalgia. COBOL systems from the 1960s are still running payroll. RECALL asks: what would a web language look like if it was designed to last?

STATEMENT
SYNTAX

What it looks like.

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. MY-SITE. PAGE-TITLE. Hello World. PROCEDURE DIVISION. RENDER-HERO. DISPLAY HEADING-1 Hello World. STOP SECTION. STOP RUN.