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'''CORC''' (the Cornell computing language) was a simple [[computer language]] developed at [[Cornell University]] in 1962 to serve lay users, namely for students to use to solve math problems. Its developers, [[industrial engineering]] professors [[Richard W. Conway]] and [[William L. Maxwell]], sought to create a language which could both expose mathematics and engineering students to computing and remove the burden of mechanical problem-solving from their professors.

CORC was designed with ease of use in mind. It contained strains of both [[FORTRAN]] and [[ALGOL]] but was much simpler. Since programs were tediously input with [[punched cards]], the [[compiler]] had a high tolerance for error, attempting to bypass or even correct problem sections of code. Students could submit a program by 5 PM which would be compiled or run overnight, with results available the next morning.

It was initially run on the [[Burroughs 220]] and later extended to the [[CDC 1604]].  In 1966 it was superseded by [[Cornell University Programming Language|CUPL]], a batch compiler for teaching which ran on the [[IBM System/360]].

An extension of CORC, the '''Cornell List Processor''' (CLP), was a list processing language used for simulation.

==References==
*{{Cite journal
 |last1=Conway 
 |first1=Richard W. 
 |authorlink1=Richard W. Conway
 |last2=Maxwell 
 |first2=William L.
 |authorlink2=William L. Maxwell 
 |title=CORC—the Cornell computing language 
 |journal=[[Communications of the ACM|CACM]] 
 |volume=6 
 |issue=6
 |pages=317&ndash;321 
 |date=June 1963
 |doi=10.1145/366604.366651
 |doi-access=free
 }}
* David N. Freeman. 1964. "Error correction in CORC: the Cornell Computing Language". In ''Proceedings of the October 27-29, 1964, fall joint computer conference, part I'' (AFIPS '64 (Fall, part I)). Association for Computing Machinery, 15–34. https://doi.org/10.1145/1464052.1464055
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090302025733/http://cit.cornell.edu/computer/history/Lesser.html Richard C. Lesser's Recollections: The Cornell Computing Center - the early years, 1953 to 1964].

==External links==
*[http://www.catb.org/~esr/cupl/ Resource page for cupl 1.6], providing binary and source code and background information about CUPL and CORC.

[[Category:Procedural programming languages]]
[[Category:Cornell University]]
[[Category:Programming languages created in 1962]]