Programming systems and languages: a historical survey
AFIPS '64 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 21-23, 1964, spring joint computer conference
Development of executive routines, both hardware and software
AFIPS '67 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 14-16, 1967, fall joint computer conference
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The many machine oriented and problem oriented languages existing and being planned today give rise to more complex problems in operating a computer. The development of computer operating systems have materially aided the problem of getting a program or series of programs on and off the computer efficiently. The variety of language processors have created a new operating system function - that of interpreting a language describing the processing to be performed for a given job. In particular the language is used to call a given processor, perscribe pertinent options and other control information. As such it is termed a computer operation language or operator oriented language. Not only does this language serve to free the human operator of many clerical tasks but it also provides for more consistent and error-free operation of the computer.