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<language, mathematics> (IT) An early compiler for mathematics developed
by A.J. Perlis et al at Carnegie Tech ca 1957. IT was originally written for the
Burroughs 205, then the IBM 650.
IT was the forerunner of RUNCIBLE, GATE, CORRELATE and GAT. IT source code was
converted to PIT, thence to SPIT.
IT-2 produced machine language directly, IT-3 developed at Carnegie added
double-precision floating-point.
[Sammet 1969, pp. 139-141].
[CACM 1(5):22 1958].
(1994-11-30)
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