Editing TRAC (programming language) (section)

{{Short description|Programming language (1964)}}
{{Infobox programming language
| name                   = TRAC
| logo                   = 
| paradigm               = [[general-purpose macro processor]]
| year                   = 1964
| designer               = [[Calvin Mooers]]
| developer              = 
| latest_release_version = T2001<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tracfoundation.org/spec/index.htm|title=TRAC T2001 Specification|date=February 5, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050205151038/http://tracfoundation.org/spec/index.htm |archive-date=2005-02-05 }}</ref>
| latest_release_date    = {{start date and age|2001|11|17}} <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/trac2001/|title=Trac 2001 programming language|date=March 8, 2013|website=SourceForge}}</ref>
| implementations        = 
| typing                 = 
| influenced_by          = Macro SAP<ref name="hopl">{{cite encyclopedia |title=TRAC – A man-machine string manipulating language |encyclopedia=HOPL: Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages |url=http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage.prx?exp=276|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813125040/http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage.prx?exp=276 |archive-date=August 13, 2009}}</ref>
| influenced             = [[SAM76]], [[ML/I]]<ref name="hopl"/>
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| website                = 
}}
'''TRAC''' (for '''T'''ext '''R'''eckoning '''A'''nd '''C'''ompiling) '''Language''' is a [[programming language]] developed between 1959–1964 by [[Calvin Mooers]] and first implemented on the [[PDP-1]] in 1964 by [[L. Peter Deutsch]].<ref name="T64">{{Cite web|url=http://tracfoundation.org/t64tech.htm|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010408052535/http://tracfoundation.org/t64tech.htm|archive-date = 2001-04-08|title = Coding Supply — Everything a Programmer Needs}}</ref> It was one of three "first languages" recommended by [[Ted Nelson]] in ''[[Computer Lib]]''. TRAC T64 was used until at least 1984, when Mooers updated it to TRAC T84.<ref name="T64"/>