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   On Sun, 25 Jan 2026, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
      
   >> 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   
      
   I had some exposure to JCL too on IBM mainframes (and to the equivalent   
   "languag" on Univac 1100 ones), but I did not consider them script   
   languages (no interactivity, no obvious way of "passing parameters",   
   did it have branching ?),   
   My exposure to JCL occurred in the UK where MSSL used the computing   
   centre at RAL ... to solve the parametere passage issue they had an   
   additional layer called Electric written over JCL jobs, which allowed to   
   change some parameters at submission time.   
      
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