OTOH the various GML implementations built on top of DCF argue pretty 
convincingly for at least some extensibility, no?

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Matt Hogstrom
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Subject: Re: What is a "programming language"? Was:: Modifying JCL on the fly

Script … I would think the control statements more clearly align with scripting 
than a full fledged language / runtime that is extensible.

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> On Nov 13, 2024, at 03:17, Jack Zukt 
> <0000059cd493dd41-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> Would you call DFSORT a programing language? It has conditional logic, 
> variables, it can compute, change data...
> Regards
> Jack


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