The following example illustrates a complete WFL job:

?BEGIN JOB EXAMPLE    (STRING TESTNAME,INTEGER TESTNUMBER);
     NAME=EXAMPLE/#STRING(TESTNUMBER,*);    % Job attribute
     USERCODE = WFL/MANUAL;                 % Job attribute
     CLASS = 2;                             % Job attribute
     TASK TCOMP, TRUN;                      % Variable declaration
 COMPILE  #(TESTNAME & STRING(TESTNUMBER,*))[TCOMP] WITH ALGOL[TRUN] GO;
 COMPILER DATA CARD                         % The COMPILE statement is
               BEGIN                        % followed by a local data
                  INTEGER I;                % specification containing the
                  DISPLAY ("P IS RUNNING"); % program being compiled.
                  DISPLAY ("NOW ABORT");    % For information about local
                  I=I/0;                    % data specifications, see the
               END.                         % "Task Initiation" section.
 ?                                          % End of data.
 IF TCOMP IS COMPILEDOK THEN                % Displays message if compile
     DISPLAY "COMPILED OK"                  % is successful.
 ELSE ABORT "*DID NOT COMPILE";             % Aborts job if compile
                                            % fails.
 IF TRUN IS COMPLETEDOK THEN                % Displays messages if run
     DISPLAY "RAN OK"                       % is successful; otherwise,
 ELSE ABORT "** RUN ABORTED";               % aborts job.
 ?END JOB.