Programmation Automatique des Formules is a

programming language A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Most programming languages are text-based formal languages, but they may also be graphical. They are a kind of computer language. The description of a programming ...

designed in 1957-1959 by Dimitri Starynkevitch at SEA, a small French computer company. PAF was similar to FORTRAN. It ran on a drum computer, the

CAB500 The CAB500 was a French transistor-based drum computer, designed at SEA around 1957 by Alice Recoque. The computer had an incremental compiler for a language, PAF ( Programmation Automatique des Formules) similar to Fortran, designed by Dimitri S ...

. The title is French for ''Automatic Programming of Formulae''.

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{{Compu-lang-stub Information technology companies of France Programming languages created in 1957