• Autocode is the name of a family of "simplified coding systems", later called programming languages, devised in the 1950s and 1960s for a series of digital...
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  • Atlas Autocode (AA) is a programming language developed around 1963 at the University of Manchester. A variant of the language ALGOL, it was developed...
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  • programming language using a compiler was commonly called an autocode. Examples of autocodes are COBOL and Fortran. The first high-level programming language...
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    the "Mark 1 Autocode", was developed for the Mark 1 by R. A. Brooker. Brooker, with the University of Manchester, also developed an autocode for the Ferranti...
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  • mathematician who wrote the first assembly language and designed the assembler and autocode for the first computer systems at Birkbeck College, University of London...
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  • SAIL. ABC ALGOL ALGOL ALGOL 58 ALGOL N ALGOL 68 ALGOL W ALGOL X Atlas Autocode Coral 66 Edinburgh IMP Jensen's Device ISWIM JOVIAL NELIAC Simula S-algol...
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  • Autocoding refers to software solutions that help manufacturers, particularly those in the food industry, ensure that products have the correct packaging...
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    NET, Visual Basic.NET, Perl, JavaScript, Objective-C, Swift, and Atlas Autocode are implemented as Iliffe vectors. In C# and Java jagged arrays can be...
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  • fact, one of the earliest programs identifiable as a compiler was called Autocode. Parnas concluded that "automatic programming has always been a euphemism...
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  • Edinburgh IMP is a development of Atlas Autocode, initially developed around 1966-1969 at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is a general-purpose...
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  • about the Mercury hardware and the Autocode coding system is included in a downloadable Spanish-language Autocode manual. Mercury weighed 2,500 pounds...
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    microcoded and bit-sliced computer, in 1958. In 1961, David Hartley developed Autocode, one of the first high-level programming languages, for EDSAC 2. Also in...
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  • Univac. 1958. Retrieved 2016-03-19. "MATH-MATIC — Mathematically oriented autocode (Computer Language)". Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages...
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  • zero-address concept through contact with George (General Order Generator), an autocode programming system written for a Deuce computer by the University of Sydney...
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  • (1925–2003) was a British computer scientist, most famous for having developed Autocode, which influential computer scientist Donald Knuth regarded as the first...
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  • University of Manchester, for several languages: Mercury Autocode, Extended Mercury Autocode, Atlas Autocode, ALGOL 60 and ASA Fortran. At roughly the same time...
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    68C ALGOL 68-R ALGOL 68RS (ELLA) ALGOL 68S ALGOL N ALGOL W ALGOL X Atlas Autocode (Edinburgh IMP) Burroughs ALGOL CORAL 66 Dartmouth ALGOL 30 DASK ALGOL...
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  • Advanced Architecture, later Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture Atlas Autocode, a computer programming language AA, Audible.com file format Authoritative...
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    had only an early version of Supervisor, and the only compiler was for Autocode. It was not until January 1964 that the final version of Supervisor was...
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    banking solutions. Data Matrix codes are used in the food industry in autocoding systems to prevent food products being packaged and dated incorrectly...
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  • 1900 range of computers in the 1960s GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin in 1957 George (robot), a simple...
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    and it was here that he began computer programming, having been taught Autocode on the Ferranti Mercury by Leslie Fox. He then went to Moscow State University...
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  • than the modern notion of a full compiler. 1952, before September: An Autocode compiler developed by Alick Glennie for the Manchester Mark I computer...
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    designers drew ideas from Hamblin's GEORGE (General Order Generator), an autocode programming system written for a DEUCE computer installed at the University...
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    slow, he came up with a new idea. He wrote the partition part in Mercury Autocode but had trouble dealing with the list of unsorted segments. On return to...
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  • Laning, Zierler, Adams at MIT Project Whirlwind Mark I Autocode Tony Brooker Glennie Autocode ARITH-MATIC Team led by Grace Hopper at UNIVAC A-0 MATH-MATIC...
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  • incorporate major ideas from multiple sources. ALGOL (also under Fortran) Atlas Autocode ALGOL 58 (IAL, International Algorithmic Language) MAD and GOM (Michigan...
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    self-reproducing programs after seeing the first known such program written in Atlas Autocode at Edinburgh in the 1960s by the University of Edinburgh lecturer and researcher...
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    used for Unisys MCP system software. Address (programming language) Atlas Autocode Coral 66 Edinburgh IMP ISWIM JOVIAL NELIAC Simula S-algol Scheme (programming...
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    high-level programming language (a compiler) called Autocode. Later another compiler called Comic replaced Autocode. In those days, compilers were unique and were...
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