BBN Filecomp
FILECOMP was a programming language developed at
Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). It was one of the three variants of
JOSS II (along with
TELCOMP
TELCOMP was a programming language developed at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) in about 1964 and in use until at least 1974. BBN offered TELCOMP as a paid service, with first revenue in October 1965. The service was sold to On-Line Systems, Inc ...
and
STRINGCOMP
STRINGCOMP was a programming language developed at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN).
It was one of the three variants of JOSS II (along with TELCOMP and FILECOMP) that were developed by BBN. It had extended string handling capabilities to augm ...
) that were developed by BBN.
The language was developed by Jordan Baruch specifically for the
GE MEDINET project (
Ed Yourdon's first
"Death March” project). It added implicit file handling capabilities and was influential on
MUMPS
MUMPS ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System"), or M, is an imperative, high-level programming language with an integrated transaction processing key–value database. It was originally developed at Massachusetts Gen ...
.
RCA FileComp
Filecomp or FileComp was a type composition language that ran on the
RCA 1600 computer attached to the RCA Graphic Services Division (GSD) VideoComp CRT typesetter.
The VideoComp was developed by Dr.
Rudolf Hell of Kiel, Germany, as the Digiset, and marketed by RCA GSD in the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1970s as the VideoComp. When RCA got out of the computer business, support of the VideoComp was taken over by
Information International, Inc. or Triple I.
Filecomp resembled an odd mix of Fortran, Cobol, Assembly and RCA GSD Page-1 Composition Languages. The user would write a program in Filecomp to read a computer data base or text file and compose it for typeset output.
References
JOSS programming language family
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