Superplan

Superplan was a high-level programming language developed between 1949 and 1951 by Heinz Rutishauser, the name being a reference to "Rechenplan" (i.e. computation plan), in Konrad Zuse's terminology designating a single Plankalkül program.

Superplan

Designed by	Heinz Rutishauser
First appeared	1951
Influenced by
Plankalkül
Influenced
ALGOL 58

The language was described in Rutishauser's 1951 publication Über automatische Rechenplanfertigung bei programmgesteuerten Rechenmaschinen (i.e. Automatically created Computation Plans for Program-Controlled Computing Machines).[1]

Superplan introduced the keyword "for" resp. the German für with its for loop, which had the following form (${\displaystyle a_{i}}$ being an array):

Für i=base(increment)limit: ${\displaystyle a_{i}}$ + addend = ${\displaystyle a_{i}}$

See also

• Compiler

References

1. Rutishauser, Heinz (1951), "Über automatische Rechenplanfertigung bei programmgesteuerten Rechenanlagen", Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (in German), 31: 255, doi:10.1002/zamm.19510310820

Further reading

• Broy, Manfred; Denert, Ernst, eds. (June 2002). Software Pioneers: Contributions to Software Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. p. 32.
• Fothe, Michael; Wilke, Thomas, eds. (2015). Keller, Stack und automatisches Gedächtnis – eine Struktur mit Potenzial (PDF) (Tagungsband zum Kolloquium 14. November 2014 in Jena). GI Series: Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) – Thematics (in German). T-7. Bonn, Germany: Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) / Köllen Druck + Verlag GmbH. pp. 20–21. ISBN 978-3-88579-426-4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-04-12. Retrieved 2020-04-12. (77 pages)