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GLURP-Generalized Language for Understanding and Responding to People. Information System for Vocational Decisions.

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Title: GLURP-Generalized Language for Understanding and Responding to People. Information System for Vocational Decisions.
Authors: Taylor, Ann, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 137
Publication Date: 1970
Sponsoring Agency: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Contract Number: OEG-1-6-061819-2240
Report Number: PR-29
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Guidance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Information Systems, Man Machine Systems, Programing Languages, Programing Problems
Abstract: GLURP (Generalized Language for Understanding and Responding to People) is a mid-point version of a script-writing computer language which had been intended by the developers of the Information System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD). Because ISVD aimed at allowing the student user to control the order and quantity of data flow (in an English language context) to the console certain requirements were demanded of the author language. This paper describes: (1) the current status of ISVD's author language (GLURP); (2) its adaptation to machines other than the RCA Spectra or IBM 360 on which it can presently be used; and (3) some system and language problems which were not solved due to insufficient time. Other computer languages used in constructing GLURP are discussed in the appendices. (TL)
Journal Code: RIENOV1971
Entry Date: 1971
Accession Number: ED052482
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:GLURP (Generalized Language for Understanding and Responding to People) is a mid-point version of a script-writing computer language which had been intended by the developers of the Information System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD). Because ISVD aimed at allowing the student user to control the order and quantity of data flow (in an English language context) to the console certain requirements were demanded of the author language. This paper describes: (1) the current status of ISVD's author language (GLURP); (2) its adaptation to machines other than the RCA Spectra or IBM 360 on which it can presently be used; and (3) some system and language problems which were not solved due to insufficient time. Other computer languages used in constructing GLURP are discussed in the appendices. (TL)