JOSS - Programming language

JOSS, aka JOHNNIAC Open Shop System, is a programming language created in 1966 by Cliff Shaw.

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JOSS (an acronym for JOHNNIAC Open Shop System) was one of the very first interactive, time-sharing programming languages. JOSS I, developed by J. Clifford Shaw at RAND was first implemented, in beta form, on the JOHNNIAC computer in May 1963. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Early development of JOSS happened in RAND
JOSS on HOPL
See also: (6 related languages) ALGOL 58, BASIC, TELCOMP, Formulating On-Line Calculations in Algebraic Language, MUMPS, JOSS Extended and Adapted for Nineteen-hundred
1 PLDB concepts link to JOSS: JOSS II

Example from Wikipedia:

Form 1: "  L(%.0f,%.0f)  ="
Form 2: "  -L(%.0f,%.0f)  ="
Form 3: "  %.0f\n"