Paradigm | imperative |
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Designed by | Remington Rand |
First appeared | 1957 |
Platform | UNIVAC 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.