Speedcoding

Speedcoding, Speedcode or SpeedCo was the first high-level programming language created for an IBM computer. The language was developed by John W. Backus in 1953 for the IBM 701 to support computation with floating point numbers. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1953
Designed by: IBM
Developed by: John Backus • IBM
Aliases: Speedcode

Wikidata: Q7475416

Influenced: Fortran

Influenced by: assembly language

Programming paradigms: procedural programming • generic programming • object-oriented programming • structured programming

Language types: procedural programming language