MATH-MATIC

MATH-MATIC
Paradigmimperative
Designed byRemington Rand
First appeared1957 (1957)
PlatformUNIVAC I, UNIVAC II
Influenced by
FLOW-MATIC
Influenced
UNICODE (programming language)

MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3) compiler, an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.

MATH-MATIC was written beginning around 1955 by a team led by Charles Katz under the direction of Grace Hopper. A preliminary manual[1] was produced in 1957 and a final manual[2] the following year.

Syntactically, MATH-MATIC was similar to Univac's contemporaneous business-oriented language, FLOW-MATIC, differing in providing algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic, and arrays rather than record structures.

  1. ^ Ash (1957)
  2. ^ Univac (1958)