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COLASL(ID:386/col003)

Two dimensional mathematical language 

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Country: United States
Designed 1962
Published: 1962
Genus: Multiline
Sammet category: Numerical Scientific

System developed at Los Alamos by Balke and Carter to permit natural expression of mathematical problems using a 2d format.
Ran on IBM 7030 (STRETCH) and used the experimental IBM 9210 Scientific Descriptive Printer to print the formulae.

References:
  • Sammet, Jean E (1961) Sammet, Jean E "1960 Tower of Babel" diagram on the front of CACM January 1961 Picture: Cover of ACM Communications December 1961
          in [ACM] (1961) [ACM] CACM 4(01) (Jan 1961)
  • Wells, M. B., (1961) Wells, M. B., "MADCAP: A Scientific Compiler for a Displayed Formula Textbook Language" Extract: Introduction
          in [ACM] (1961) [ACM] CACM 4(01) (Jan 1961)
  • Balke, K. G. and Carter, G. L., (1962) Balke, K. G. and Carter, G. L., "The COLASL Automatic Coding Language" pp501-537
          in (1962) Symbolic Languages in Data Processing, in the Proceedings of the Symposium organized and edited by the International Computation Centre, Rome, Italy, March 26­31, 1962, Gordon and Beech Science Publishers, 1962.
  • K. G. Balke, G. Carter (1962) K. G. Balke, G. Carter "The COLASL automatic coding system" Abstract
          in (1962) Automatic programming and compilers II
  • Carter, G. (1963) Carter, G. L., Balke, K. G., and Bacon, B. A., COLASL L, Los Alamos Scientific Lab., Los Alamos, N.M. (June, 1963) (unpublished, cited in Sammet).
          in (1962) Automatic programming and compilers II
  • Goldstein (1965) Goldstein, M. "Computer Languages" The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 72, No. 2, Part 2: Computers and Computing Feb., 1965 pp141-146 Extract: Languages scene
          in (1962) Automatic programming and compilers II
  • Sammet, Jean E., (1967) Sammet, Jean E., "Roster of Programming Languages 1967"
          in (1967) Computers & Automation 16(6) June 1967
  • Sammet, Jean E. (1969) Sammet, Jean E. "Computer Languages - Principles and History" Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall 1969. pp.265- 271.
          in (1967) Computers & Automation 16(6) June 1967
  • Sammet, Jean E., (1972) Sammet, Jean E., "Programming languages: history and future"
          in [ACM] (1972) [ACM] CACM 15(06) (June 1972)
  • Wells (1972) Wells, Mark B. "A review of two-dimensional programming languages" pp1-10 Extract: COLASL
          in [TDMMC] (1972) Proceedings of the SIGPLAN symposium on Two-dimensional man-machine communication 1972 , Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
  • Wells, Mark B. (1976) Wells, Mark B. "Preprocessing of typed two-dimensional mathematical expressions" pp25-37
          in [SIGPLAN] (1976) SIGPLAN Notices 11(09) September 1976
  • Sammet, Jean E. (1987) Sammet, Jean E. "Self-Study Questions & Answers" p109 Extract: COLASL
          in (1987) Annals of the History of Computing, Spring 1987
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