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Even though its designer refers to the language as "being based on [[ALGOL]]", IMP excludes many ''defining'' features of that language, while supporting a very non-ALGOL-like one: syntax extensibility.

A compiler for IMP existed as early as 1965 and was used for programming the [[CDC 6600]] time-sharing system, which was in use at the [[Institute for Defense AnalysisAnalyses]] since 1967. Although the compiler is slower than comparable ones for non-extensible languages, it has been used for practical production work.

IMP compilers were developed for the [[CDC-6600]], [[PDP-10]] and [[PDP-11]] computers. Important IMP versions were '''IMP65''', '''IMP70''', and '''IMP72'''.