FORMAC

FORMAC, acronym of FORmula MAnipulation Compiler, was an early computer algebra system based on FORTRAN. It was developed by Jean E. Sammet.

FORMAC supported computation, manipulation, and use of symbolic expressions.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Sammet, Jean E. (1969). Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-729988-5.

Bibliography

  • Jean E. Sammet, "The beginning and development of FORMAC (FORmula MAnipulation Compiler)", Proceedings of HOPL-II, The second ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages, p. 209-230, 1993 ISBN 0-89791-570-4 doi:10.1145/154766.155372


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