Plankalkül is a programming language, ideal for engineering purposes. The language was developed by Konrad Zuse, a German engineer and computer pioneer in the 1940s, and stood out as the first high-level computer programming language to be created.
– Programs are reusable functions, and functions are not recursive– Variables are local to functions (programs)– The fundamental data types are arrays and tuples of arrays, but there are also floating point, fixed point, complex numbers; records; hierarchical data structures; list of pairs.