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Language peer sets for ACT:
United States↑
United States/1958↑
Designed 1958 ↑
1950s languages ↑
Second generation↑
Early Cold War↑
Genus Generalised programming ↑
Experimental and other ↑
Generalised programming↑
US historic algorithmic systems↑
Historic algorithmic languages ↑
Generalised programming/1958↑
US historic algorithmic systems/1958↑
Historic algorithmic languages/1958↑
Generalised programming/United States↑
US historic algorithmic systems/United States↑
Historic algorithmic languages/United States↑
Experimental and other ↑
Experimental and other/1958↑
Experimental and other/us ↑

ACT(ID:5368/act028)

Autocode Coding system 

alternate simple view
Country: United States
Designed 1958
Genus: Generalised programming
Sammet category: Experimental and other

Continuation of the FLEXMATIC research by Holt and Turanski at U Pennsylvania Moore School. Designed to be a portable solution for the FIELDATA computers used by the army. In the article from 1961, Holt is scathing about UNICODE and UNCOL and their approach, and the ACT project was reactive against both of them

People:
Related languages
FLEXIMATIC → ACT   Evolution of
GPX → ACT   Evolution of
UNCOL → ACT   Reaction to
ACT → ACT II   Evolution of
ACT → APL   Co-development
ACT → Mem-theory   Evolution of
References:
  • Holt, Anatol W. (1958) Holt, Anatol W. "General purpose programming systems" DOI Extract: Generic programming systems
          in [ACM] (1958) [ACM] CACM 1(05) (May 1958)
  • Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. Final Report of Co (1959) Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. Final Report of Common Programming Language Task, Part II, "Automatic Code Translation System", USASRDL, Fort Monmouth, N.J., Report no. AD59UR1, July 31, 1959;
          in [ACM] (1958) [ACM] CACM 1(05) (May 1958)
  • Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. Final Report of Co (1959) Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. Final Report of Common Programming Language Task, Part II, "Automatic Code Translation System", USASRDL, Fort Monmouth, N.J., Report no. AD59UR1, July 31, 1959;
          in [ACM] (1958) [ACM] CACM 1(05) (May 1958)
  • Holt, A. W.; Turanski, W. J.; and McGinnity, D. L. (1959) Holt, A. W.; Turanski, W. J.; and McGinnity, D. L. "Common programming language task, II. Automatic code translation system (ACT.)" Univ. of Pennsylvania, Report No. AD60URI, 1959
          in [ACM] (1958) [ACM] CACM 1(05) (May 1958)
  • Holt, A. W.; Turanski, W. J.; and McGinnity, D. L. (1959) Holt, A. W.; Turanski, W. J.; and McGinnity, D. L. "Common programming language task, II. Automatic code translation system (ACT.)" Univ. of Pennsylvania, Report No. AD60URI, 1959
          in [ACM] (1958) [ACM] CACM 1(05) (May 1958)
  • Gorn, S., and E. Parker. (1960) Gorn, S., and E. Parker. "Common Programming Language Task, Final Report No. AD60UR1, Part I." U.S. Army Signal Research and Development Laboratories and University of Pennsylvania, the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, the Institute for Cooperative Research. June 30, 1960
          in [ACM] (1958) [ACM] CACM 1(05) (May 1958)
  • Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. (1960) Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. "Man-to-Machine Communication and Automatic Code Translation" Abstract Extract: General Considerations Extract: FIELDATA Requirements Extract: Code-to-Code Translation Extract: The ACT System Extract: Allocation Interpreter Extract: The Core Library Extract: The General Translation Library Extract: Final Summary
          in [JCC 17] (1960) [JCC 17] Proceedings of the 1960 Western Joint Computer Conference, May 1960
  • Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. (1960) Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. "Man-to-Machine Communication and Automatic Code Translation" Abstract Extract: General Considerations Extract: FIELDATA Requirements Extract: Code-to-Code Translation Extract: The ACT System Extract: Allocation Interpreter Extract: The Core Library Extract: The General Translation Library Extract: Final Summary
          in [JCC 17] (1960) [JCC 17] Proceedings of the 1960 Western Joint Computer Conference, May 1960
  • Holt, A. (1960) Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. First Quarterly Report of Common Programming Language Task, Part II, January 15, 1960;
          in [JCC 17] (1960) [JCC 17] Proceedings of the 1960 Western Joint Computer Conference, May 1960
  • Holt, A. (1960) Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. First Quarterly Report of Common Programming Language Task, Part II, January 15, 1960;
          in [JCC 17] (1960) [JCC 17] Proceedings of the 1960 Western Joint Computer Conference, May 1960
  • Holt, A. (1960) Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. Second Quarterly Report of Common Programming Language Task, Part II, March 15, 1960
          in [JCC 17] (1960) [JCC 17] Proceedings of the 1960 Western Joint Computer Conference, May 1960
  • Holt, A. (1960) Holt, A. W. and Turanski, W. J. Second Quarterly Report of Common Programming Language Task, Part II, March 15, 1960
          in [JCC 17] (1960) [JCC 17] Proceedings of the 1960 Western Joint Computer Conference, May 1960
  • Holt (1960) Holt, Anatol "Over all computation control and labelling"
          in [ACM] (1960) [ACM] CACM 3(11) November 1960
  • 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)
  • Sammet, Jean E., (1972) Sammet, Jean E., "Programming languages: history and future"
          in [ACM] (1972) [ACM] CACM 15(06) (June 1972)
  • Watts S. Humphrey (1987) Watts S. Humphrey "MOBIDIC and Fieldata" pp146-147 Extract: Fieldata Programming
          in (1987) Annals of the History of Computing, Spring 1987
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