<s>
FLOW-MATIC	B-Language
,	O
originally	O
known	O
as	O
B-0	O
(	O
Business	O
Language	O
version	O
0	O
)	O
,	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
English-like	O
data	B-General_Concept
processing	I-General_Concept
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
developed	O
for	O
the	B-Operating_System
UNIVAC	I-Operating_System
I	O
at	O
Remington	O
Rand	O
under	O
Grace	O
Hopper	O
from	O
1955	O
to	O
1959	O
,	O
and	O
helped	O
shape	O
the	O
development	O
of	O
COBOL	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hopper	O
had	O
found	O
that	O
business	O
data	B-General_Concept
processing	I-General_Concept
customers	O
were	O
uncomfortable	O
with	O
mathematical	O
notation	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
late	O
1953	O
,	O
she	O
proposed	O
that	O
data	B-General_Concept
processing	I-General_Concept
problems	O
should	O
be	O
expressed	O
using	O
English	O
keywords	O
,	O
but	O
Rand	O
management	O
considered	O
the	O
idea	O
unfeasible	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
FLOW-MATIC	B-Language
compiler	O
became	O
publicly	O
available	O
in	O
early	O
1958	O
and	O
was	O
substantially	O
complete	O
in	O
1959	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
FLOW-MATIC	B-Language
was	O
the	O
first	O
programming	O
language	O
to	O
express	B-General_Concept
operations	I-General_Concept
using	I-General_Concept
English-like	I-General_Concept
statements	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
data	B-Language
definition	I-Language
language	I-Language
,	O
unlike	O
its	O
executable	O
statements	O
,	O
was	O
not	O
English-like	O
;	O
rather	O
,	O
data	O
structures	O
were	O
defined	O
by	O
filling	O
in	O
pre-printed	O
forms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
FLOW-MATIC	B-Language
and	O
its	O
direct	O
descendant	O
AIMACO	B-Language
shaped	O
COBOL	B-Application
,	O
which	O
incorporated	O
several	O
of	O
its	O
elements	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Flow-Matic	B-Language
sections	O
included	O
(	O
Environment	O
Division	O
)	O
,	O
(	O
Data	O
Division	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
(	O
Procedure	O
Division	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
sample	O
FLOW-MATIC	B-Language
program	O
:	O
</s>
