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{{Infobox programming language
| name = Speedcoding
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| paradigm = [[structured programming|structured]], [[Object-oriented programming|object-oriented]], [[Generic programming|generic]]
| year = 1953
| designer = [[John Backus]]
| developer = [[John Backus]] & [[IBM]]
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| typing = [[strongly typed programming language|strong]], [[Type system|static]], [[manifest typing|manifest]]
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| influenced_by = [[Assembly language]], [[Machine code]]
| influenced = [[ALGOL 58]], [[BASIC]], [[C (programming language)|C]], [[Fortran]], [[PL/I]], [[PACT I]], [[MUMPS]], [[Ratfor]]
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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>
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