an object-oriented architecture. Burroughs Medium Systems Burroughs Small Systems CANDE Network Definition Language (NDL) Work Flow Language (WFL) Octal...
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earliest high-level assembler was probably Burroughs' Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language (ESPOL) in about 1960, which provided an ALGOL-like syntax...
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PL360 (category IBM System/360 mainframe line)
Burroughs system, and moved as a binary file to the S/360.: 66 The B5500 is programmed in a high-level ALGOL-derived language Executive Systems Problem Oriented...
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which an operating system was not developed entirely in assembly language; it was written in Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language (ESPOL), an Algol...
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Simula (redirect from Simula programming language)
a general-purpose programming language and provided the framework for many of the features of object-oriented languages today. Simula has been used in...
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Niklaus Wirth (category Pascal (programming language))
develop a simple yet powerful hardware description language called Lola. Niklaus has always built the systems he is either researching or teaching himself since...
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ALGOL W (redirect from Algol-W programming language)
the IBM System/360 at Stanford University that was widely distributed. The implementation was written in PL360, an ALGOL-like assembly language designed...
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ALGOL 58 (redirect from ALGOL 58 programming language)
originally named IAL, is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL 60. According...
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borrowed many features from ALGOL 68 but was designed for systems programming (machine-oriented programming), with a subset of operations being reserved...
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Tony Hoare (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
who has made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing. His work...
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CORAL (redirect from CORAL66 language)
Microcircuit Computer Ferranti Digital Systems (PDF). Bracknell, Berkshire, UK: Ferranti Limited, Digital Systems Department. October 1968 [September 1968]...
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John McCarthy (computer scientist) (category Lisp (programming language) people)
into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI's Hall of Fame (2011), for the "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems" Named as one of the...
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institution located in Lille, France. Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language – a systems implementation language for Burroughs Corporation computers...
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JOVIAL (redirect from JOVIAL programming language)
high-level programming language based on ALGOL 58, specialized for developing embedded systems (specialized computer systems designed to perform one...
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NELIAC (redirect from NELIAC programming language)
Compiler (NELIAC) is a dialect and compiler implementation of the programming language ALGOL 58, developed by the Navy Electronics Laboratory (NEL) in 1958. It...
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Floyd, Robert W.; Knuth, Donald Ervin (1970). The Bose-Nelson sorting problem. Stanford, California: Computer Science Department, Stanford University...
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An executive information system (EIS), also known as an executive support system (ESS), is a type of management support system that facilitates and supports...
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Burroughs MCP (redirect from MCP (Burroughs Large Systems))
systems. MCP was originally written in 1961 in ESPOL (Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language). In the 1970s, MCP was converted to NEWP which was a...
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ALGOL N (redirect from ALGOL N programming language)
problem that language designers faced when trying to make an inextensible language for all domains, or having to make many domain-specific languages (DSLs)...
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COBOL (redirect from Common Ordinary Business-Oriented Language)
procedural, and, since 2002, object-oriented language. COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments...
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ALGOL (redirect from Algol programming language)
designed to avoid some of the perceived problems with FORTRAN and eventually gave rise to many other programming languages, including PL/I, Simula, BCPL, B,...
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Kristen Nygaard (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the...
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ALGOL 60 (redirect from LEAP (programming language))
Pascal, and C. Practically every computer of the era had a systems programming language based on ALGOL 60 concepts. Niklaus Wirth based his own ALGOL...
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IMP is an early systems programming language that was developed by Edgar T. Irons in the late 1960s through early 1970s, at the National Security Agency...
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John C. Reynolds (redirect from Forsythe (programming language))
Theories of Programming Languages, Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-59414-6. Articles "Transformational Systems and the Algebraic Structure...
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Atlas Autocode (redirect from Atlas Autocode programming language)
Autocode (AA) is a programming language developed around 1963 at the University of Manchester. A variant of the language ALGOL, it was developed by Tony...
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ALGOL 68S (redirect from ALGOL 68S programming language)
ALGOL 68S is a programming language designed as a subset of ALGOL 68, to allow compiling via a one-pass compiler. It was mostly for numerical analysis...
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running the University of Michigan Executive System (UMES) and the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) operating systems. In the mid-1960s MAD was ported...
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Ole-Johan Dahl (category Programming language designers)
of Oslo and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard. Dahl was born in Mandal, Norway...
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is an algebraic programming language developed for the Bendix G-15 computer. ALGO was one of several programming languages inspired by the Preliminary...
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