Job-control Language (Noun)
Meaning
A problem-oriented language used to describe job requirements to an operating system.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The job-control language allowed the programmer to specify the resources needed for the job and the order in which the tasks should be executed.
- In the early days of computing, job-control language was used to manage batch processing and job scheduling on mainframe computers.
- The operating system used a job-control language to manage the execution of multiple jobs concurrently and efficiently.
- The programmer wrote a job-control language script to automate the process of submitting and monitoring jobs on the system.
- The job-control language provided a set of commands and syntax for defining job dependencies and resource allocation.