A General Basis for Comparative Evaluation of AED, COBOL, JOVIAL, and PL/1

Abstract

REVIEWS), SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, CONTROL SEQUENCES, COMPUTER LOGICCOBOL, PL/1 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, JOVIAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGEThe report provides an analysis of the technical features and pertinent characteristics of the programming languages AED, COBOL, JOVIAL, and PL/1, which were chosen for evaluation because of general applicability to programming problems within the scope of Air Force interest. The methodology derives from the development of a Language Feature Outline and a Language Evaluation Questionnaire for which programmer/analysts supplied detailed technical information and subjective evaluations. The intent of this report is to provide material in support of evaluations of the relative suitability of the four languages for specific applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0758205

Entities

People

  • J. C. Desroches

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Command And Control
  • Compilers
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Data Processing
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Data Transmission
  • Information Processing
  • Machine Languages
  • Object Code
  • Operating Systems
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Programming Languages

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.