Programmation Automatique des Formules
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Programmation Automatique des Formules is a programming language
designed in 1957-1959 by Dimitri Starynkevitch at SEA, a small French
computer company. PAF was similar to FORTRAN
. It ran on a drum computer, the CAB500
. The title is French for Automatic Programming of Formulae.
Programming language
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
designed in 1957-1959 by Dimitri Starynkevitch at SEA, a small French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
computer company. PAF was similar to FORTRAN
Fortran
Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing...
. It ran on a drum computer, the CAB500
CAB500
The CAB500 was a French transistor-based drum computer, designed at SEA around 1957It had an incremental compiler for a language, PAF similar to Fortran, designed by Dimitri Starynkevitch in 1957-1959. CAB 500's first model was delivered in February, 1961 , and more than a hundred examples were...
. The title is French for Automatic Programming of Formulae.