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United States
United States/1952
Designed 1952
1950s languages
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Immediate Post-War
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List
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Rank 1
List/1952
Rank 1 unlabelled/1952
Rank 1/1952
List/United States
Rank 1 unlabelled/United States
Rank 1/United States
Specialised Languages
Specialised Languages/1952
Specialised Languages/us

Isaac(ID:7278/isa006)

Earliest List processing language 

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Country: United States
Designed 1952
Genus: List
Sammet category: Specialised Languages


Earl Isaac, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, 1952

Earliest pure list/symbolic language, made use of "redundant dictionary" and sorting to process logical sequences such as "Dogs have fleas, midges have germs, fleas have midges." from symbols.


References:
  • Isaac, Earl J. (1952) Isaac, Earl J. "Machine aids to coding" pp17-18 Extract: Introduction
          in Proc. (1952) Proc. ACM Toronto Meeting 1952
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