COMTRAN
Programming language, IBM, Fortran, COBOL, Bob Bemer, Exit, Picture clause
Published on 11. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
68 pages
978-613-1-77368-6 (ISBN)
Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. COMTRAN is an
early programming language developed at IBM. It was intended as the
business programming equivalent of the scientific programming language
FORTRAN. It served as one of the forerunners to the COBOL language.
Developed by Bob Bemer, in 1957, the language was the first to feature
the programming language element known as a picture clause.