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The evolution of job control languages

Author(s) -

Barron D. W.,

Jackson I. R.

Publication year - 1972

Publication title -

software: practice and experience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437

H-Index - 70

eISSN - 1097-024X

pISSN - 0038-0644

DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380020205

Subject(s) - george (robot) , computer science , analogy , programming language , control (management) , second generation programming language , feature (linguistics) , scale (ratio) , simple (philosophy) , fifth generation programming language , third generation programming language , linguistics , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , programming paradigm , philosophy , geography , cartography , epistemology

Job control languages are a feature of any large scale operating system. This paper traces the historical development of these languages, and compares two representative examples, OS/360 JCL and GEORGE 3 command language. The paper draws an analogy between job control languages and programming languages, showing that JCL is equivalent to an assembly language, whilst GEORGE 3 command language is like a simple autocode.

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