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'''Speedcoding''', '''Speedcode''' or '''SpeedcodeSpeedCo''' was the first [[high-level programming language]]{{efn|Meaning symbolic and aimed at [[natural language]] expressiveness as opposed to [[machine language|machine]] or hardware instruction oriented coding.}} created for an [[IBM]] computer.<ref name="Allen_1981"/> The language was developed by [[John W. Backus]] in 1953 for the [[IBM 701]] to support computation with [[floating point| floating point numbers]].<ref name="Shasha-Lazere_1998"/>
 
The idea arose from the difficulty of programming the [[IBM SSEC]] machine when Backus was hired to calculate astronomical positions in early 1950.<ref name="Booch-Backus_2006"/>