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COMTRAN Dead

COMTRAN
KindProgramming language
Appeared1957
Ended1960
StatusDead
CreatorBob Bemer / IBM
FamilyIndependent
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

IBM's Commercial Translator — FLOW-MATIC's rival and COBOL's other parent; its picture-clause data descriptions passed almost verbatim into COBOL.

Created by Bob Bemer
Influenced COBOL

IBM's COMTRAN (1957) was its commercial competitor to FLOW-MATIC — a business-oriented English-syntax language for the 705 that predated COBOL.\n\nCOMTRAN fed into the COBOL standardization process alongside FLOW-MATIC and AIMACO; all three business languages shaped the committee's design.

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Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMTRAN