Information Processing Language

Programming language

Softwareprogramming language procedural programming languageQ776372

Also known as IPL

Developer: Allen Newell
, Cliff Shaw
, Herbert Simon
Founded: 1956

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Information Processing Language (IPL) is a programming language created by Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, and Herbert A. Simon at RAND Corporation and the Carnegie Institute of Technology about 1956. Newell had the job of language specifier-application programmer, Shaw was the system programmer, and Simon had the job of application programmer-user.

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Designed by: Allen Newell
Cliff Shaw
Herbert Simon
Programming paradigm: procedural programming

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