Let's not get carried away, Autocodes with compilers for the Mark 1 well precede her FLOW-MATIC for the UNIVAC I, which precedes COBOL. A lot of this depended

Let's not get carried away, Autocodes with compilers for the Mark 1 well precede her FLOW-MATIC for the UNIVAC I, which precedes COBOL. A lot of this depended on computer access, this is back in the days before core memory, when a several thousand vacuum tubes were used for the CPU, and before core memory was generally available. The Mark 1 initially had 5120 bits of main memory using CRTs, the UNIVAC I used mercury delay lines, 1,000 words of 12 characters.