TELCOMP

TELCOMP (sometimes stylized as TELCOMP) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages. It was originally developed by Bell Labs in the early 1970s. The TELCOMP languages were designed to be used in the development of telephone switching systems, and they were used extensively for that purpose. However, TELCOMP also found use in other domains such as banking, manufacturing, and air traffic control. TELCOMP is a procedural language, meaning that programs are written as a sequence of commands or instructions. TELCOMP also supports structured programming, which allows for the creation of modular programs that are easier to understand and maintain. The TELCOMP languages are based on the ALGOL programming language, and they share many features with other ALGOL-derived languages such as Pascal and Ada. TELCOMP was originally developed for the Bell Labs TOPS-20 operating system, but it was later ported to other systems, including the IBM mainframe operating system MVS. TELCOMP is no longer in active use, but it remains an influential language, having influenced the design of other languages such as C++ and Java.