FLOW-MATIC

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.