In late 1953, she proposed that data processing problems should be expressed using English keywords, but Rand management considered the idea unfeasible.
In early 1955, she and her team wrote a specification for such a programming language and implemented a prototype.
[3] The Laning and Zierler system was the first programming language to parse algebraic formulae.
When Hopper became aware of that language in 1954, it altered the trajectory of her work.
[4] FLOW-MATIC was the first programming language to express operations using English-like statements.