From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
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   >>> Around 1989, I got access to UNIX workstations and also worked in C   
   >>> and various script languages, especially Perl.   
   >>   
   >> What else was there in terms of “scripting” at the time?   
   >   
   > One had OS-dependent scripting at least as far as early 1980s.   
   >   
   > On HP RTE-6 VM there were "transfer files" with some two-letter control   
   > statements. On IBM VM/CMS one could write scripts in EXEC, then EXEC2,   
   > and later REXX (REXX is still kicking and alive). On VAX VMS "command   
   > files" where written in DCL (Digital Command Language).   
      
   JCL is also a script language, of sorts (the worst prorgramming   
   language of all times, according to Brooks).   
      
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