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STRINGCOMP

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STRINGCOMP was a programming language developed at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN).
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STRINGCOMP was a programming language developed at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN).

It was one of the three variants of JOSS II
JOSS
JOSS was one of the very first interactive, time sharing programming languages.JOSS I, developed by J. Clifford Shaw at RAND was first implemented, in beta form, on the JOHNNIAC computer in May 1963...

 (along with TELCOMP
TELCOMP
TELCOMP was a programming language developed at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in about 1965 and in use until at least 1974.It was an interactive, conversational language based on JOSS, developed by BBN after Cliff Shaw from RAND visited the labs in 1964 as part of the NIH survey...

 and FILECOMP
FILECOMP
- BBN FILECOMP :FILECOMP was a programming language developed at Bolt, Beranek and Newman . It was one of the three variants of JOSS II that were developed by BBN....

) that were developed by BBN. It had extended string handling capabilities to augment JOSS's mathematical focus. It was a strong influence in the development of the programming language MUMPS
MUMPS
MUMPS , or alternatively M, is a programming language created in the late 1960s, originally for use in the healthcare industry. It was designed for the production of multi-user database-driven applications...

.