RAPIDWRITE--A New Approach to COBOL Readability
E. Humby · The Computer Journal · 1962
Features in an autocode which make programs easier to read are often just those which make it irksome to write. The way to avoid an ugly compromise is to make Readability not something which affects the design of the language but a feature which can be added during the translation run. This paper describes I.C.T. RAPIDWRITE, an autocode enabling COBOL facilities to be expressed in condensed form from which is produced, at translation time, a full and valid COBOL version with its advantages of Readability and Compatibility.