COMTRAN

COMTRAN is an early programming language developed at IBM. It was intended as the business programming equivalent of the scientific programming language FORTRAN. It served as one of the forerunners to the COBOL language. Developed by Bob Bemer, in 1957, the language was the first to feature the programming language element known as a picture clause. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1957
Created by: Bob Bemer
Developed by: Bob Bemer
Aliases: Commercial Translator

Wikidata: Q5013384

Influenced: COBOL

Influenced by: FLOW-MATIC

Programming paradigms: procedural programming

Language types: procedural programming language