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'''Speedcoding''' or Speedcode was the first higher-level language created for an IBM computer <ref> {{cite journal |last=Allen|first=F.E.|title=The History of Language Processor Technology in IBM|journal=IBM Journal of Research Development|volume=25|issue=5, September 1981}}</ref>. The language was developed by [[John Backus]] in 1953 for the [[IBM 701]] to support computation with [[floating point| floating point numbers]] <ref>{{cite book |title=Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists |last=Shasha |first=Dennis |coauthors=Cathy Lazere |year=1998 |publisher=Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. |___location=New York |isbn=0-387-98269-8 }}</ref>. The system was an interpreter and focused on ease of use at the expense of system resources.
Psedo ops for arithmetic and math functions
Conditional and unconditional branching
Autoincrement registers
Only 700 words, and very slow.
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