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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.

PsedoPseudo opsoperands for arithmetic and math functions

Conditional and unconditional branching

AutoincrementAuto-increment registers

Only 700 words, and very slow.