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BESTOP(ID:4043/bes005)

Statistically oriented report generator 

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Country: United States
Designed 1965
Published: 1968
Genus: Report Generators
Sammet category: Business Data Processing

for Business Economics STatistical Operating Program

U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Business Economics in 1965.

from pcBESTOP manual:
BESTOP is a procedural language with a one character op-code, a one
character file code and positional notation for the data fields. BESTOP supports the classical operations of If, Else, Move, Write, arithmetic, Find, Do loops, subroutine calls and a table lookup. Also supported is match file processing. BESTOP programs can be written very quickly to reformat files, extract data, summarize data, and write reports.


Implementations included BESTOP50, BESTOPVL, BEST400

Structures:
Related languages
  BESTOP→BEST400 Implementation
  BESTOP→BESTOP50 Implementation
  BESTOP→BESTOPVL Implementation
  BESTOP→pcBESTOP Implementation
  BESTOP→SUPERB Extension of
References:

1979

  • (1979) BESTOP Programmer's Manual Extract: Background Extract: Program Control Extract: Data Constants And Work Areas