Plankalkül
| Plankalkül | |
|---|---|
| Paradigm | Procedural |
| Designed by | Konrad Zuse |
| First appeared | 1948 – concept first published |
| Major implementations | |
| Plankalkül-Compiler by the FU Berlin in 2000 | |
| Influenced | |
| Superplan, ALGOL 58 | |
Plankalkül (German pronunciation: [ˈplaːnkalkyːl]) is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945. It was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer. Zuse never implemented Plankalkül on any of his Z-series machines.
Kalkül (from Latin calculus) is the German term for a formal system—as in Hilbert-Kalkül, the original name for the Hilbert-style deduction system—so Plankalkül refers to a formal system for planning.