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SHACO(ID:116/sha001)

Interpretive symbolic maths system 

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Country: United States
Designed 1953
Genus: Formulaic
Sammet category: Numerical Scientific

for Short Hand COding

Interpretive maths and symbolic maths system developed for IBM 701 at Los Alamos by Willard  Bouricius et al, operational May 1953

The name refers to the distinction made at Los Alamos between "short hand" calculation (using interpreters) as opposed to "long hand" manual assembly with full instructions.

One of languages describe by Backus 1978 as creating a "synthetic computer"

Bouricius was one of the 701 user representatives that advised on Speedcoding.

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Hardware:
Related languages
SHACO → FLOCO   Co-development
SHACO → SPEEDCODING   Positive Moderate Influence
References:
  • Bouricius, Willard G. (1953) Bouricius, Willard G. "Operating experience with the Los Alamos 701"
          in [JCC 04] Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer (1953) [JCC 04] Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference Washington DC. December 1953
  • Bemer (1957) Bemer, R. W. "The Status of Automatic Programming for Scientific Problems" Abstract Extract: Summary Extract: IT, FORTRANSIT, SAP, SOAP, SOHIO
          in [Armour] (1957) "Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Computer Applications Symposium" , Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 1957
  • Bemer (1958) [Bemer, RW] [State of ACM automatic coding library August 1958]
          in [Armour] (1957) "Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Computer Applications Symposium" , Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 1957
  • [Bemer] (1959) [Bemer, RW] [State of ACM automatic coding library May 1959] Extract: Obiter Dicta
          in [ACM] (1959) [ACM] CACM 2(05) May 1959
  • Carr (1959) Carr, John W III; "Computer Programming" volume 2, chapter 2, pp115-121
          in Crabbe et al (1957) E. M. Crabbe, S. Ramo, and D. E. Wooldridge (eds.) "Handbook of Automation, Computation, and Control," John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1959.
  • Bemer, R (1962) Bemer, R "ISO TC97/SC5/WGA(1) Survey of Programming Languages and Processors" December 1962
          in [ACM] (1963) [ACM] CACM 6(03) (Mar 1963)
  • Knuth, Donald Ervin, and Luis Trabb Pardo (1977) Knuth, Donald Ervin, and Luis Trabb Pardo "The early development of programming languages" pp419-96
          in Belzer, J. (1977) Belzer, J. ; A. G. Holzman, A. Kent, (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. 1979
  • Backus, John (1978) Backus, John "The History of FORTRAN I, II and III"
          in [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
  • (1986) "The Speedcoding Language and interpreter" 9.3 pp333-338
          in C.J. Bashe, L.R. Johnson, J.H. Palmer, and E.W. Pu (1986) C.J. Bashe, L.R. Johnson, J.H. Palmer, and E.W. Pugh "IBM's Early Computers" MIT Press, 1986 (Vol. 3 in the History of Computing series)
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