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Flow-Matic
LOW-MATIC FLOW-MATIC, originally known as B-0 (Business Language version 0), was the first English-like data processing language. It was developed for the UNIVAC I at Remington Rand under Grace Hopper from 1955 to 1959, and helped shape the development of COBOL.
In late 1953, she proposed that data processing problems should be expressed using English keywords, but Rand management considered the idea unfeasible. The record fields PRODUCT-NO and UNIT-PRICE would have been defined in the DIRECTORY section, which ( as previously noted) did not use English-like syntax. “Automatic programming: Present status and future trends”, Mechanisation of Thought Processes, National Physical Laboratory Symposium 10.
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