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Language peer sets for BALITAC:
United States
United States/1956
Designed 1956
1950s languages
Second generation
Early Cold War
Genus Low-level Autocoders
Excluded from Sammet
Low-level Autocoders
Autocoders
US historic algorithmic systems
Low-level Autocoders/1956
Autocoders/1956
US historic algorithmic systems/1956
Low-level Autocoders/United States
Autocoders/United States
US historic algorithmic systems/United States
Excluded from Sammet
Excluded from Sammet/1956
Excluded from Sammet/us

BALITAC(ID:43/bal007)

MIT Compiler for 650 

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Country: United States
Designed 1956
Genus: Low-level Autocoders
Sammet category: Excluded from Sammet


for Basic Literal Automatic Coding

MIT compiler for the IBM 650, operational January 1956, created by the team of Batten, O'Keefe and Petrick

Heavily used in early guidance systems research



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References:
  • Battin, R.H., (1956) Battin, R.H., "Programming Manual for BALITAC 650 Routine," Report R-126, MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 1956.
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Battin (1982) Battin, R. H. "Space guidance evolution - A personal narrative" Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 5, Mar.-Apr. 1982, pp97-110 Extract: Origins of MITILAC Extract: Origin of HAL name Extract: BALITAC
          in [ACM] (1963) [ACM] CACM 6(03) (Mar 1963)
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