Speedcoding

Speedcoding

Speedcoding or Speedcode was the first higher-level language created for an IBM computer [ cite journal |last=Allen|first=F.E.|title=The History of Language Processor Technology in IBM|journal=IBM Journal of Research Development|volume=25|issue=5, September 1981] . The language was developed by John Backus in 1953 for the IBM 701 to support computation with floating point numbers [cite book |title=Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists |last=Shasha |first=Dennis |coauthors=Cathy Lazere |year=1998 |publisher=Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=0-387-98269-8 ] . The system was an interpreter and focused on ease of use at the expense of system resources.

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References

*Backus, John, [http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/FORTRAN/paper/p4-backus.pdf "The IBM 701 Speedcoding System"] , Journal of the ACM (JACM), Volume 1, Issue 1 (January 1954), pp. 4-6,
*cite conference |last=Backus|first=John W.|coauthors=Harlan, Herrick|title=IBM 701 Speedcoding and Other Automatic-programming Systems|booktitle=Proc. Symp. on Automatic Programming for Digital Computer|location=Washington DC, The Office of Naval Research|date=May 1954|pages=106-113
*cite book |last=Sammet|first=Jean E.|title=Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals|publisher=Prentice-Hall|date=1969

ee also

*Fortran
*History of programming languages
*Short Code


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