EXEC - Programming language

EXEC is a programming language created in 1966.

#1212on PLDB

58Years Old

CMS EXEC, or EXEC, is an interpreted, command procedure control, computer scripting language used by the CMS EXEC Processor supplied with the IBM Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System (VM/CMS) operating system. EXEC was written in 1966 by Stuart Madnick at MIT on the model of CTSS RUNCOM. He originally called this processor COMMAND, and it was later renamed EXEC. Read more on Wikipedia...

EXEC Wikipedia page
EXEC first developed in IBM
EXEC on HOPL
EXEC appears in the TIOBE Index
See also: (2 related languages)EXEC 2, Rexx

Example from Wikipedia:

* The following code issues CMS commands to set
* the "blip" character to asterisk and request
* the "short" format for system ready messages.
&CONTROL OFF
SET BLIP *
SET RDYMSG SMSG