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Language peer sets for SIR:
United States
United States/1955
Designed 1955
1950s languages
Second generation
Early Cold War
Genus Autocode Coeval
Excluded from Sammet
Autocode Coeval
Autocodes
UK historic algorithmic systems
Autocode Coeval/1955
Autocodes/1955
UK historic algorithmic systems/1955
Autocode Coeval/United States
Autocodes/United States
UK historic algorithmic systems/United States
Excluded from Sammet
Excluded from Sammet/1955
Excluded from Sammet/us

SIR(ID:119/sir001)

IBM Autocoder for IBM 650 

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Country: United States
Designed 1955
Published: 1955
Genus: Autocode Coeval
Sammet category: Excluded from Sammet


for Symbolic Interpretive Routines

Internal autocode system for IBM 650

Presumably renaming of the earlier SOAP SIR

It had an emulated floating point system, and was widely used in early scientific calculations



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References:
  • Oldfield and Hemmerle (1956) Oldfield, Bruce and Hemmerle, William "SIR Soap Interpretive Routine programmer's guide", IBM March, 1956 Picture: Cover of SIR manual
  • 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
  • Gardner (1957) Gardner, Donald Glenn "Nuclear Decay Scheme Analysis And Characterization Studies Of (.D,Alpha) Reaction Products" PhD University of Michigan, 1957. May, 1957 IP-2SO Online copy Extract: SIR and SOAP Extract: SOAP Extract: MITILIAC
          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.
  • Stock (1971) Stock, Karl F. "A listing of some programming languages and their users" in RZ-Informationen. Graz: Rechenzentrum Graz 1971 227 Abstract
          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.
  • Stock and Stock (1973) Stock, Marylene and Stock, Karl F. "Bibliography of Programming Languages: Books, User Manuals and Articles from PLANKALKUL to PL/I" Verlag Dokumentation, Pullach/Munchen 1973 551 Abstract
          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.
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