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Computer Science & Early Computers · Coding
As technical consultant to the 1959 CODASYL committee, I saw my English-like FLOW-MATIC language extended into COBOL, which went on to become the most ubiquitous business programming language to date.
On the UNIVAC I team I proposed that programmers write in English and let the computer translate to machine code. I was told computers didn't understand English; I built the A-0 compiler and published the first paper on compilers in 1952.
I am a computer scientist and mathematician who devised the theory of machine-independent programming languages, built the compiler technology behind FLOW-MATIC and COBOL, and wrote the first computer manual.
