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Back when digital, electronic computers were new, assembly was called "automatic programming".
by scott_s 12y ago
Back when digital, electronic computers were new, assembly was called "automatic programming".
- smhenderson 12y agoGood old Autocode. Finally you didn't need to enter all instructions by number, it was considered a great leap forward at the time... 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. His main goal was to make the programming of Mark 1 machine, known for its partcularly abstruse machine code, comprehensible. Although the resulting language was much clearer than the machine code, it was still very machine dependent. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode