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Command languages (Computer science)

Here are entered works on computer program languages that use commands to communicate with computer operating systems or other programs, and that are sometimes referred to as job control languages. Works on the specific command language called JCL, or Job Control Language, are entered under Job Control Language (Computer program language).

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• Programming languages (Electronic computers)

• JCLs (Computer science)
• Job control languages (Computer science)
• Shell languages (Computer science)

• Data Science at the Command Line (free online edition; originally published 2014), by Jeroen Janssens (illustrated HTML at datascienceatthecommandline.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (2007), by Shriram Krishnamurthi (HTML and PDF with commentary at Brown)
• Advanced Programming Language Design (1996), by Raphael A. Finkel (PDF files at Addison-Wesley)
• Python for Data Analysis (open access third edition; ca. 2022), by Wes McKinney (illustrated HTML with commentary at wesmckinney.com)
• Programming and Programming Languages (2016), by Shriram Krishnamurthi (HTML at Brown)
• Programming in Oberon: Steps Beyond Pascal and Modula (c1992), by Martin Reiser and Niklaus Wirth (PDF in Switzerland)
• Coderspeak: The Language of Computer Programmers (London: UCL Press, c2024), by Guilherme Orlandini Heurich
  • PDF with commentary at UCL
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
• The Art of Assembly Language Programming (several editions; all but the "published edition" are free), by Randall Hyde (HTML and other formats at plantation-productions.com)

• Semantics With Applications: A Formal Introduction (revised online edition, 1999), by Hanne Riis Nielson and Flemming Nielson (PDF and Postscript with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming, by John English (HTML at adaic.org)

• Alphard: Form and Content (New York et al.: Springer-Verlag, c1981), ed. by Mary Shaw (PDF at CMU)

• PC Assembly Language (2006), by Paul A. Carter (PDF files with commentary at github.io)
• Atari Roots (1984), by Mark Andrews (HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Assembly Language Programming for the Atari Computers (1984), by Mark Chasin (HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Usborne Introduction to Machine Code for Beginners (London: Usborne Pub., c1983), by Lisa Watts and Mike Wharton, illust. by Naomi Reed and Graham Round (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• The Art of Assembly Language Programming (several editions; all but the "published edition" are free), by Randall Hyde (HTML and other formats at plantation-productions.com)

• BASIC: A Manual for BASIC, the Elementary Algebraic Language Designed for Use with the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (1964), by Dartmouth College Computation Center (PDF at textfiles.com)
• David Ahl's BASIC Computer Adventures (1986), by David H. Ahl (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Machine Language for Beginners: Machine Language Programming for BASIC Language Programmers (1983), by Richard Mansfield (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Introduction to Computer Programming (Tulsa, OK and Burlington, ON: Hayes, c1982), by Brian Reffin Smith, ed. by Lisa Watts, illust. by Graham Round and Martin Newton (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• ZX81 Basic Programming (second edition; 1981), by Steven Vickers (page images at worldofspectrum.org)
• Atari BASIC, XL Edition (1985), by Bob Albrecht, LeRoy Finkel, and Jerald Brown (page images at atariarchives.org)
• Atari Player-Missile Graphics in BASIC (1984), by Philip C. Seyer (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Big Computer Games (1984), ed. by David H. Ahl (HTML and page images at atariarchives.org)
• Atari BASIC (1979), by Bob Albrecht, LeRoy Finkel, and Jerald Brown (page images at atariarchives.org)
• More BASIC Computer Games (1979), ed. by David H. Ahl (HTML and page images at atariarchives.org)
• BASIC Computer Games (1978), ed. by David H. Ahl (HTML and page images at atariarchives.org)

• An Introduction to C and GUI Programming (second edition; Cambridge, UK: Raspberry Pi Press, ca. 2022), by Simon Long (PDF with commentary at raspberrypi.org)
• Modern C (open access second edition, 2019), by Jens Gustedt (PDF with commentary at inria.fr)
• Learn to Code with C (from the MagPi Essentials series; Cambridge, UK: Raspberry Pi Ltd., ca. 2016), by Simon Long (PDF with commentary at raspberrypi.org)
• The C Book (1991), by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady, and Mark Doran (HTML in the UK)
• Using C on the UNIX System (originally published 1989; free electronic edition 2014), by David A. Curry (multiple formats with commentary at bitsinthewind.com)
• Image Processing in C (second edition; c2000), by Dwayne Phillips (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• Foundations of Computer Science (C edition, ca. 1994), by Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman (PDF files with commentary at Stanford)
• Objektorientierte Programmierung mit ANSI C (in German and English; c1994), by Axel T. Schreiner
  • German original: PDF at RIT
  • English translation ("Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI C"): PDF at RIT
• Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing (second edition, 1992), by William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, and Brian P. Flannery (FileOpen-dependent PDF files at nrbook.com)
• Scientific Programming and Computer Architecture (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Divakar Viswanath (illustrated HTML at github.io)
• Writing Bug-Free C Code: A Programming Style That Automatically Detects Bugs in C Code (based on the 1995 edition), by Jerry Jongerius (HTML at duckware.com)
• Build Your Own Lisp, by Daniel Holden (illustrated HTML with commentary at buildyourownlisp.com)

• COBOL: A Self-Instructional Manual (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by James A. Saxon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forth Guide, by Glen B. Haydon (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Starting Forth (electronic edition), by Leo Brodie (illustrated HTML with commentary at forth.com)
• Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (electronic edition), by Leo Brodie (PDF files with commentary at sourceforge.net)

• LAPACK Users' Guide (second edition, 1995) (HTML at netlib.org)
• A FORTRAN Coloring Book (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1978), by Roger Emanuel Kaufman (page images with commentary at GWU)
• Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing (second edition, 1992), by William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, and Brian P. Flannery (FileOpen-dependent PDF files at nrbook.com)
• NBS*AIDS80: A FORTRAN Program for Crystallographic Data Evaluation (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1981), by A. D. Mighell, C. R. Hubbard, and J. K. Stalick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Calculation of Gamma-Ray Shapes for Sodium Iodide Scintillation Spectrometers: Computer Programs and Experimental Problems (1965), by R. L. Heath, Richard G. Helmer, L. A. Schmittroth, and G. A. Cazier (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Professional Programmer's Guide to Fortran 77 (electronic edition, 2005), by Clive G. Page (HTML with commentary in the UK)

• Implementing Functional Languages: A Tutorial (1992), by Simon L. Peyton Jones and David R. Lester (compressed formats at Microsoft)
• The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (New York et al.: Prentice Hall, c1987), by Simon L. Peyton Jones, contrib. by Philip Wadler, Peter Hancock, and D. A. Turner (multiple formats at Microsoft)
• Purely Functional Data Structures (dissertation version, 1996), by Chris Okasaki (PDF at CMU)
• Clojure Cookbook (open source Github version; originally published 2014), by Luke VanderHart and Ryan Neufeld (HTML with commentary at Github)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.