Sammet, Jean E. "The early history of COBOL"

[HOPL I] (1979) SIGPLAN Notices 14(04) April 1979 including The first ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages (HOPL) Los Angeles, CA, June 1-3, 1978   Jean E Sammet

Languages mentioned AIMACO {1958} AIr MAteriel COmmand compiler APG-1 {1959} Dupont business oriented language AUTOCODER III {1958} HLL version of AUTOCODER COBOL {1960} COmmon Business Oriented Language COBOL Narrator {1960} RCA COBOL COMTRAN {1958} Commercial Translator FLOW-MATIC {1957} Release name for B-0, Possibly the first English-like DP language Hanford Mark II {1957} Report generating language from GE Hanford SURGE {1958} Report Generator