Complex sentence: David Parnas, tracing the history of "automatic programming" in published research, noted that in the 1940s it described automation of the manual process of punching paper tape, and later referred to translation of high-level programming languages like Fortran and ALGOL.
Split into simpler sentences: David Parnas, tracing the history of "automatic programming" in published research, noted that in the 1940s it described automation of the manual process of punching paper tape. Later referred to translation of high-level programming languages like Fortran and ALGOL.