Superplan

Superplan
Designed byHeinz Rutishauser
First appeared1951
Influenced by
Plankalkül
Influenced
ALGOL 58

Superplan was a high-level programming language developed between 1949 and 1951 by Heinz Rutishauser, the name being a reference to "Rechenplan" (i.e. computation plan), in Konrad Zuse's terminology designating a single Plankalkül program.

The language was described in Rutishauser's 1951 publication Über automatische Rechenplanfertigung bei programmgesteuerten Rechenmaschinen (i.e. Automatically created Computation Plans for Program-Controlled Computing Machines).[1]

Superplan introduced the keyword für as for loop, which had the following form ( being an array item):

Für i=base(increment)limit:  + addend = 
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rutishauser_1951 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).