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Re:Case Study: IBM's System/360-370 Architecture (1987) [pdf] by wglb on Sunday April 07, 2019 @02:54PM (#19599066)
The pdp 10 was introduced in 1966. DOS/360 was introduced in 1964, prior to the PDP 10. Thus, there was nothing to borrow when JCL was invented.

Again, what examples of existing languages were available at the time the JCL was invented?

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Re:Case Study: IBM's System/360-370 Architecture (1987) [pdf] by jecel on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:39AM (#19605612)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_Flow_Language

It says this was introduced "soon after 1961", though I doubt the IBM people were aware of it.

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