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- ↑ Sammet, Jean E. (1993). "The beginning and development of FORMAC (FORmula MAnipulation Compiler)". Proceedings of HOPL-II, The second ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages. pp. 209–230. doi:10.1145/154766.155372. ISBN 0-89791-570-4.
- ↑ Sammet, Jean E. (1969). Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-729988-5.
