ARITH-MATIC(ID:1833/ari004)

Subsequent name for A-3 

subsequent name for A-3
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A-3 => ARITH-MATIC   Renaming
C-10 => ARITH-MATIC   Compiled to
References:
  • Ash, R., Broadwin, E., Della Valle, V., Katz, C., Greene, M., Jenny, A., and Yu, L. "Preliminary Manual for MATH-MATIC and ARITH-MATIC Systems (for Algebraic Translation and Compilation for UNIVAC I and II)" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Remington Rand Univac 1957 view details
  • Greene, Mary Lou. The edited record (to provide a record of the transition from MATH-MATIC pseudo-eode sentences through ARITH-MATIC pseudo-code operations into the final UNIVAC C-10 running program). 1957 view details
  • [Bemer, RW] [State of ACM automatic coding library August 1958] view details
  • Rosen, Saul "Programming Systems and Languages: a historical Survey" (reprinted in Rosen, Saul (ed) Programming Systems & Languages. McGraw Hill, New York, 1967) view details Extract: Early UNIVAC languages
    The first large scale electronic computer available commercially was the Univac I (1951). The first Automatic Programming group associated with a commercial computer effort was the group set up by Dr. Grace Hopper in what was then the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp., and which later became the Univac Division of Sperry Rand. The Univac had been designed so as to be relatively easy to program in its own code. It was a decimal, alphanumeric machine, with mnemonic instructions that were easy to remember and use. The 12 character word made scaling of many fixed-point calculations fairly easy. It was not always easy to see the advantage of assembly systems and compilers that were often slow and clumsy on a machine with only 12,000 characters of high speed storage (200 microseconds average access time per 12 character word). In spite of occasional setbacks, Dr. Hopper persevered in her belief that programming should and would be done in problem-oriented languages. Her group embarked on the development of a whole series of languages, of which the most used was probably A2, a compiler that provided a three address floating point system by compiling calls on floating point subroutines stored in main memory. The Algebraic Translator AT3 (Math-Matic) contributed a number of ideas to Algol and other compiler efforts, but its own usefulness was very much limited by the fact that Univac had become obsolete as a scientific computer before AT3 was finished. The B0 (Flow-Matic) compiler was one of the major influences on the COBOL language development which will be discussed at greater length later. The first sort generators were produced by the Univac programming group in 1951. They also produced what was probably the first large scale symbol manipulation program, a program that performed differentiation of formulas submitted to it in symbolic form.
          in [AFIPS JCC 25] Proceedings of the 1964 Spring Joint Computer Conference SJCC 1964 view details