Speedcoding is a programming language created in 1953 by John Backus.

Speedcoding or Speedcode was the first high-level programming language created for an IBM computer. The language was developed by John Backus in 1953 for the IBM 701 to support computation with floating point numbers. Here high level means symbolic and aiming for natural language expressivity as a goal as opposed to machine or hardware instruction oriented coding. Read more on Wikipedia...

• Speedcoding Wikipedia page
• Speedcoding first developed in IBM
• Speedcoding on HOPL
• See also: (10 related languages)Assembly language, Fortran, ALGOL 58, BASIC, C, PL/I, PACT I, MUMPS, RATFOR, Short Code computer language