FLOW-MATIC

FLOW- MATIC (originally B-0 ) was the first computer language used statements that were similar to the English language. It was designed in 1955 by Grace Hopper in the services of the UNIVAC I for Remington Rand of Remington Rand. Compilers and documentation were then a few years generally available and especially for programming tasks in commercial use.

There were about thirty orders and instructions from the colloquial language (eg, COMPARE, DIVIDE, IF GREATER, OTHERWISE ). Other features were data, where natural names (eg PRICE UNIT PRICE or ) could be assigned for the first time and the separation of data part and procedure part in the program.

Predecessor of FLOW- MATIC were A -0, ARITH -MATIC, MATH -MATIC, which also come from the Grace Hopper.

It was Grace Hopper's idea that computers with natural language -like instructions may be programmed, rather than as was customary in machine code or assembly language mnemonic. FLOW- MATIC and the ideas of Grace Hopper were the foundations for the later development of COBOL.