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== Influence == In proposing the collaboration with the [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] that led to [[ALGOL 58]], the [[Gesellschaft fΓΌr Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik]] wrote that it considered MATH-MATIC the closest available language to its own proposal.<ref>Bemer (1969) p. 161</ref> In contrast to [[John Backus|Backus']] [[Fortran|FORTRAN]], MATH-MATIC did not emphasise execution speed of compiled programs. The UNIVAC machines did not have [[floating point|floating-point]] hardware, and MATH-MATIC was translated via A-3 ([[ARITH-MATIC]]) pseudo-assembler code rather than directly to UNIVAC machine code, limiting its usefulness. <ref>Knuth (1976) p. 90</ref>
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