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GECOM(ID:411/gec002)

GE Hybrid language system

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Country: United States
Designed 1960
Published: 1961
Genus: COBOL-60
Sammet category: Business Data Processing

for GEneral COMpiler

General Electric 1961 for the GE-255.

Hybrid language system comprised of ALGOL, COBOL, FRINGE and TABSOL. Rumour that FRINGE and TABSOL may not have actually been implemented is incorrect - TABSOL part of GE in 1963 BRL file.

from BRL manifest
"GECOM - A General Compiler, in English, with a COBOL language foundation. It includes many ALGOL features (subscripting, evaluation of Boolean and algebraic expressions, floating point calculations, etc.). GECOM accepts a source program from cards or magnetic tape and produces an object program on either media."

Places

GE usI

Structures:

Object

Related languages

COBOL	→	GECOM	Evolution of
GECOM	→	FRINGE	Subsystem
GECOM	→	IDS	Subsystem of
GECOM	→	TABSOL	Subsystem of

References:

GECOM Language Specifications, General Electric, C (1961) GECOM Language Specifications, General Electric, Computer Dept., Phoenix, Ariz. (Dec., 1961).

General Electric Corporation, (1961) General Electric Corporation, "GECOM--the general compiler," CP13 144 (IOM-4-61), General Electric Corporation Computer Dept., April 1961 Extract: GECOM!!!

Sammet, Jean E. (1961) Sammet, Jean E. "A method of combining ALGOL and and COBOL" pp379-387.
in [JCC 19] (1961) [JCC 19] Proceedings of the Western Joint Computer Conference, May 1961

Katz, Charles (1962) Katz, Charles "GECOM: The General Compiler", pp495-500
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.

Franklin, R. W. (1963) Franklin, R. W. "Implementation of a compiler-GECOM" Australian Computer Conf., Melbourne, 1963
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.

Schwalb, J., (1963) Schwalb, J., "Compiling in English" pp28-30
in (1963) Datamation 9(7) July 1964

Johnson, N. (1964) Johnson, N. W. review of Franklin 1963 (GECOM) Abstract
in (1964) ACM Computing Reviews 5(01) January-February 1964

Weik, Martin H. (1964) Weik, Martin H. "A Fourth Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems" Report No. 1227, January 1964 Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland Online copy at Computer History Museum
in (1964) ACM Computing Reviews 5(01) January-February 1964

(1969) Sammet on GECOM in Sammet 1969 Extract: Intro
in (1964) ACM Computing Reviews 5(01) January-February 1964

Sammet, Jean E. (1969) Sammet, Jean E. "Computer Languages - Principles and History" Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall 1969. p.329.
in (1964) ACM Computing Reviews 5(01) January-February 1964

Stock (1971) Stock, Karl F. "A listing of some programming languages and their users" in RZ-Informationen. Graz: Rechenzentrum Graz 1971 113 Abstract
in (1964) ACM Computing Reviews 5(01) January-February 1964

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 258 Abstract
in (1964) ACM Computing Reviews 5(01) January-February 1964

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