< language > 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)