language Fortran Internal Translator.
It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Compilation took place in several steps (using
punched cards
as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to
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
floatingpoint routines).
[Sammet 1969, p. 141].
(1995-03-30)