Jean E. Sammet was an American computer scientist who served on the committee that designed the COBOL programming language in 1959, one of the earliest widely used business-oriented programming languages. She went on to write some of the first comprehensive surveys and histories of programming languages as a field, and in 1974 she became the first woman to serve as president of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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What was FORMAC, the language Jean Sammet developed at IBM?
FORMAC was the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas.
FORMAC was the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas, and Sammet developed it at IBM. At IBM she also researched the use of restricted English as a programming language and the use of natural language for mathematical programs.
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Sammet (March 23, 1928 - May 20, 2017) was an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962.
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