FLOW-MATIC

FLOW-MATIC
Paradigmimperative
Designed byRemington Rand, Grace Hopper
First appeared1955 (1955)
PlatformUNIVAC I
Influenced by
ARITH-MATIC, Laning and Zierler system
Influenced
MATH-MATIC, AIMACO, COBOL

FLOW-MATIC, originally known as B-0 (Business Language version 0), was the first English-like data processing language. It was developed for the UNIVAC I at Remington Rand under Grace Hopper from 1955 to 1959, and helped shape the development of COBOL.

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