FLOW-MATIC
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FLOW-MATIC, originally known as B-0 (Business Language version 0), was the first English-like data processing language. It was developed for the UNIVAC I at Remington Rand under Grace Hopper from 1955 to 1959, and helped shape the development of COBOL.
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It is catalogued under topics including COBOL, Procedural programming languages and Programming languages created in 1955.
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Key facts
- Programming language.name
- FLOW-MATIC
- Programming language.paradigm
- imperative
- Programming language.designer
- Remington Rand, Grace Hopper
- Programming language.influenced_by
- ARITH-MATIC, Laning and Zierler system
- Programming language.influenced
- MATH-MATIC, AIMACO, COBOL
- Programming language.platform
- UNIVAC I
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- procedural programming language
- Location
- Remington Rand
- Platform
- UNIVAC I
- Designed by
- Grace Hopper
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- inception
- 1955-01-01
- programming paradigm
- procedural programming
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Development
- Innovations and influence
- Sample code
- Notes
- References
FLOW-MATIC, originally known as B-0 (Business Language version 0), was the first English-like data processing language. It was developed for the UNIVAC I at Remington Rand under Grace Hopper from 1955 to 1959, and helped shape the development of COBOL.
== Development == Hopper had found that business data processing customers were uncomfortable with mathematical notation: In late 1953, she proposed that data processing problems should be expressed using English keywords, but Rand management considered the idea unfeasible. In early 1955, she and her team wrote a specification for such a programming language and implemented a prototype. The FLOW-MATIC compiler became publicly available in early 1958 and was substantially complete in 1959.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FLOW-MATIC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.