MOL-360

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MOL-360 is a mid-level systems programming language for the IBM System/360 family of computers based on Algol.[1][2]

The only data structure supported by the language is arrays. It has no support for floating point data, but allows direct access to processor registers and inline assembly language.

MOL-360 was used by System Development Corporation (SDC) to develop the ADEPT time-sharing system.[3]

A similar language, MOL940, was written for the SDS 940 computer system.[4]

References

  1. Rubinoff, Morris, ed (1972). "Systems Programming Languages". Advances in Computers. Academic Press. pp. 279–280. ISBN 978-0-08-056644-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=vg_QRDVR7hgC&dq=%22MOL-360%22+language&pg=PR6. 
  2. Sammet, Jean (October 1971). "Brief Survey of Languages Used for Systems Implementation". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 6 (9): 1–19. doi:10.1145/942596.807055. 
  3. System Development Corporation (1968). Technical Memorandum TM-3628/002/00. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/680248.pdf. 
  4. Hay, R. E.; Rulifson, J. F. MOL940: Preliminary Specification for an ALGOL-Lile Machine-Oriented Language for the SDS 940 (PDF) (Technical report). Stanford Research Institute.