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JOVIAL
KindProgramming language
Appeared1960
StatusDead
CreatorJules Schwartz / SDC
FamilyALGOL
Also known asJ73
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

ALGOL dialect that ran the US Air Force for decades — 'Just Another Version Of International Algebraic Language', so pervasive it spawned the industry joke 'JOVIAL is a language'.

Descended from ALGOL 58
Created by Jules Schwartz

JOVIAL (Jules' Own Version of the International Algebraic Language) — Jules Schwartz's 1959 ALGOL derivative at SDC — became the US military's standard systems language for two decades, running SAGE, SACCS, and air-traffic control.\n\nStandardized as MIL-STD-1589, it persisted in defense systems into the 2000s — a language almost no civilian programmer ever saw.

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Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOVIAL