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Language peer sets for AUTOCODER III:
United States
United States/1958
Designed 1958
1950s languages
Second generation
Early Cold War
Genus Low-level Autocoders
Business Data Processing
Low-level Autocoders
Autocoders
US historic algorithmic systems
Low-level Autocoders/1958
Autocoders/1958
US historic algorithmic systems/1958
Low-level Autocoders/United States
Autocoders/United States
US historic algorithmic systems/United States
Business Data Processing
Business Data Processing/1958
Business Data Processing/us

AUTOCODER III(ID:3872/aut010)

HLL version of AUTOCODER 

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Country: United States
Designed 1958
Genus: Low-level Autocoders
Sammet category: Business Data Processing


HLL version of AUTOCODER for the IBM 705

from BRL manifest
"Autocoder III: An advanced programming language in which programs may be written by stating the data processing involved."

It was one of the languages reviewed by the Asch CODASYL Committee: (from Sammet)
An important decision of the committee was to agree (Asch, 1959) "that the following language systems and programming aids would be reviewed by the committee: AIMACO, Comtran [sic], Flowmatic [sic], Autocoder III, SURGE, Fortran, RCA 501 Assembler, Report Generator (GE Hanford) , APG-I (Dupont)"


Related languages
AUTOCODER II AUTOCODER III   Evolution of
AUTOCODER III AUTOCODER Decision Table Assembler   Extension of
AUTOCODER III COBOL   Influence

References:
  • [IBM] 7070 Basic AUTOCODER. (1959) [IBM] 7070 Basic AUTOCODER. IBM Corp., Data Processing Div., White Plains, N. Y., 1959
  • [IBM] IBM 7070 Data Processing System Bulletin: IB (1959) [IBM] IBM 7070 Data Processing System Bulletin: IBM 7070 input/output control system. IBM Corp., Data Processing Div., White Plains, N. Y., 1959
  • [IBM] The preparation of macro-instructions for us (1959) [IBM] The preparation of macro-instructions for use with AUTOCODER III. IBM Corp., Data Processing Div., White Plains, N. Y., 1959
  • Asch, Alfred. (1959) Asch, Alfred. 1959 July 29. Minutes of Committee Meeting on Data Systems Languages Held at Bureau of Standards, June 23-24. (Cited in Sammet 1978) Extract: Languages examined by CODASYL
  • Kreuzer, Klaus Autocoder Programmierung mit Makro (1959) Kreuzer, Klaus Autocoder Programmierung mit Makro-Instruktionen bei der IBM 7070. Elektronische Rechenanlagen 1(4): 183-185 (1959)
  • [IBM] IBM 7070/7074 Data Processing System Bulleti (1961) [IBM] IBM 7070/7074 Data Processing System Bulletin: IBM 7070/7074 compiler systems: operating procedure. IBM Corp., Data Processing Div., White Plains, N. Y., Feb. 1961
  • IBM (1961) IBM "Powerful New Programming Aids Announced for IBM 1401 Computer" Extract: COBOL, Autocoder and IOCS
          in (1961) Computer and Automation May 1961
  • Weik, Martin H. (1961) Weik, Martin H. "A Third Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems" Rpt 1115, BRL, Maryland, 1961 Online copy at Computer History Museum
          in (1961) Computer and Automation May 1961
  • Gallup, Roy (1970) Gallup, Roy ""The Autocoder Language" Kendall Hunt, 1970
          in (1961) Computer and Automation May 1961
  • Hager, Oberita (1975) Hager, Oberita "An Evaluation of the Data Processing Program at Eastern Kentucky University"
          in (1961) Computer and Automation May 1961
  • Sammet, Jean E. (1978) Sammet, Jean E. "The early history of COBOL" Abstract
          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
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