Business and engineering enriched FORTRAN (BEEF)
Norman Moraff · 1964
In April, 1961, the Westinghouse Baltimore Defense and Space Center established a truly integrated Information Processing Department with the responsibility of serving the combined needs of scientific research and engineering computer applications, as well as management information systems and business data processing. A single high-speed, large scale, binary, fixed-word length computer was selected as the heart of the computer facilities to be used. Personnel previously using similar equipment in Westinghouse had for a number of years used FORTRAN for programming the solution process of a broad spectrum of engineering work in the area of military electronics. Obviously, FORTRAN would continue to be used as a programming language in this area of activity.