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Language peer sets for Aiken CPC translator:
United States↑
United States/1948↑
Designed 1948 ↑
1940s languages ↑
First generation↑
Immediate Post-War↑
Genus Symbolic assemblers ↑
Excluded from Sammet ↑
Symbolic assemblers↑
Assemblers↑
Fixed operation ↑
Symbolic assemblers/1948↑
Assemblers/1948↑
Fixed operation/1948↑
Symbolic assemblers/United States↑
Assemblers/United States↑
Fixed operation/United States↑
Excluded from Sammet ↑
Excluded from Sammet/1948↑
Excluded from Sammet/us ↑

Aiken CPC translator(ID:6020/ait001)

Proposed relay code for the Harvard Mark III 

alternate simple view
Country: United States
Designed 1948
Genus: Symbolic assemblers
Sammet category: Excluded from Sammet

A machine propsed by Aiken at Harvard to make code for the Harvard Mark III computer (ie an Automatic Programmer computer)

Also CPC code. Backus was recruited to the project, and drew on these lessons in SPEEDCODING
Related languages
Lovelace and Babbage → Aiken CPC translator   Influence
Aiken CPC translator → ADA   Evolution of
Aiken CPC translator → AUTOCODE   Influence
Aiken CPC translator → Boehm   Influence
Aiken CPC translator → Seeber instructions   Influence
Aiken CPC translator → SPEEDCODING   Influence
References:
  • Aiken, H. (1952) Aiken, H. H., and 55 others (Staff of the Computation Laboratory), Description of a Magnetic Drum Calculator
          in The Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvar (1952) The Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, Vol. 25, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1952
  • Aiken, H. H. (1955) Aiken, H. H. "The Future of Automatic Computing Machinery"
          in ECIP55 Fachtagung 'Elektronische Rechenmaschinen U (1956) ECIP55 Fachtagung 'Elektronische Rechenmaschinen Und Informationsverarbeitung' [Electronic Digital Computers And Information Processing] Darmstadt, Germany, October 25-27, 1955. Braunschweig, F. Vieweg, 1956.
  • Rosen, Saul (1964) Rosen, Saul "Programming Systems and Languages: a historical Survey" (reprinted in Rosen, Saul (ed) Programming Systems & Languages. McGraw Hill, New York, 1967) Extract: CPC system
          in [AFIPS JCC 25] (1964) [AFIPS JCC 25] Proceedings of the 1964 Spring Joint Computer Conference SJCC 1964
  • Knuth, Donald Ervin, and Luis Trabb Pardo (1977) Knuth, Donald Ervin, and Luis Trabb Pardo "The early development of programming languages" pp419-96
          in Belzer, J. (1977) Belzer, J. ; A. G. Holzman, A. Kent, (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. 1979
  • Ferguson, Cassie (1998) Ferguson, Cassie "Howard Aiken: Makin' a Computer Wonder" Harvard Gazette April 09, 1998 Abstract Online copy
          in Belzer, J. (1977) Belzer, J. ; A. G. Holzman, A. Kent, (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. 1979
  • Cohen, I. Bernard (1999) Cohen, I. Bernard "A Portrait of Howard Aiken, Computing Pioneer" M.I.T. Press 1999
          in Belzer, J. (1977) Belzer, J. ; A. G. Holzman, A. Kent, (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. 1979
  • Cohen, I. Bernard and Gregory M. Welch (eds) (1999) Cohen, I. Bernard and Gregory M. Welch (eds) "Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer" M.I.T. Press 1999
          in Belzer, J. (1977) Belzer, J. ; A. G. Holzman, A. Kent, (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. 1979
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