The evolution of job control languages

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 1972 English Publisher:WileyJournal:Software: Practice and Experience, volume 2, pages 143-164 (issn: 0038-0644, eissn: 1097-024X,

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Authors: David W. Barron; I. R. Jackson;

doi: 10.1002/spe.4380020205

The evolution of job control languages

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AbstractJob 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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University of Southampton
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Formal languages and automata, Theory of operating systems

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