Fortransit

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  FORTRANSIT
       
           Fortran Internal Translator.
       
          A subset of {Fortran} translated into {IT} on the {IBM 650}.
          It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s.


       
          Compilation took place in several steps (using {punched card}s
          as the only input/output media).  FORTRANSIT was converted to
          IT {Internal Translator} which was converted into {SOAP} and
          thence to {machine code}.
       
          In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card
          decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program
          (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic {floating
          point} routines).
       
          [Sammet 1969, p. 141].
       
          (1995-03-30)