JOVIAL

language (Jule's Own Version of IAL) A version of IAL

produced by Jules I. Schwartz in 1959-1960. JOVIAL was based

on ALGOL 58, with extensions for large scale real-time

programming. It saw extensive use by the US Air Force. The

data elements were items, entries (records) and tables.

Versions include JOVIAL I (IBM 709, 1960), JOVIAL II (IBM7090, 1961) and JOVIAL 3 (1965). Dialects: J3, JOVIALJ73, JS, JTS.

Ada/Jovial Newsletter, Dale Lange [phone].

[CACM 6(12):721, Dec 1960].

(1996-07-19)