31 Nazi Inventions That Changed the World by Books +Digital

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Published: 2019-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

19. Plankalkül

Konrad Zuse

Plankalkül is a programming language created by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945. It was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer. "Kalkül " means formal system, so Plankalkül means "formal system for planning".

Konrad Zuse had created some computers with electromagnetic relays, and in 1938 built the Z1 computer (we'll talk more about it in this eBook). When he finished his project, he realized the need to create a logical language based on propositional calculus. He decided to create the Plankalkül language as part of his doctoral dissertation, developing a formal notation system for algorithms that could manipulate linear, branched and in loop calculus planes, which was very sophisticated and complex for the time.

Due to the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, Konrad Zuse was unable to submit his creation to the PhD, but had the language developed and recorded in a never released book.

After the end of World War II, Konrad Zuse published some scholarly articles in 1948, but didn’t received the prestige that his invention deserved. In the 1970s, with the advancement of computer processing, Plankalkül was published and compiled, being relaunched by students at the Free University of Berlin, in 2000, for academic purposes.

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