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Autocode

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Autocode is the name given to a family of early, simplified programming languages, or automatic coding systems, developed for a series of British computers in the 1950s and early 1960s, including the Manchester Mark 1 and its successors. Autocode systems are considered by some historians to be the earliest compiled programming languages, and the various dialects developed independently for different machines by figures including Alick Glennie and Tony Brooker were not compatible with each other.

Facts
First Released
1952 1
Significance
Generic name for a family of early, mutually incompatible simplified coding systems devised in the 1950s and 1960s for computers at Manchester, Cambridge and London. 1
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Programming Language Theory, Fields
Source Autocode - Wikipedia
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1. Autocode - Wikipedia
  • Glennie's Autocode section, sentence 1
    The first autocode and its compiler were developed by Alick Glennie in 1952 for the Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester and is considered by some to be the first compiled programming language.
  • Lead section
    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 computers at the Universities of Manchester, Cambridge and London.
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead sentence
    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 computers at the Universities of Manchester, Cambridge and London.
  • In Group: Early High-Level Languages and Coding Systems, Lead
    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 computers at the Universities of Manchester, Cambridge and London.
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