Grace Hopper said FLOW-MATIC was motivated by data-processing users who preferred word-oriented commands to symbolic notation.

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"Grace Hopper said FLOW-MATIC was motivated by data-processing users who preferred word-oriented commands to symbolic notation."

Hopper recalled that data-processing users were accustomed to words rather than mathematical symbols, helping motivate the word-oriented approach behind FLOW-MATIC.

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Source title Oral History of Captain Grace Hopper

Source authors Grace Hopper; Angeline Pantages

Source year 1980

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