FACT is an early discontinued computer programming language, created by the Datamatic Division of Minneapolis Honeywell for its model 800 series business computers in 1959.
Some of the design of FACT was based on the linguistic project Basic English, developed about 1925 by C.K.
The software was actually designed by Computer Sciences Corporation (Fletcher Jones, Roy Nutt, and Robert L. Patrick) under contract to Richard Clippinger of Honeywell.
",[2] this included a bank and a military inventory management system.
[clarification needed] The following code samples from the simple payroll application in the FACT specification show the fixed-form nature of FACT and its similarities with COBOL.