Automatic Programming

FORTRAN, a programming language developed by IBM in 1957, is particularly suited for numerical and scientific calculations. Early FORTRAN advocated “automatic programming” and was designed to allow scientists and engineers to enter mathematical expressions directly into programs. This greatly reduced the effort of traditional machine language programming and made programming available to a much wider audience.

The Fortran Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704 (October 15, 1956), the first programmer’s reference manual for Fortran

• Fortran - Wikipedia

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