Short code
language
(SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly’s BINAC and later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high level language.
[Sammet 1969, p. 129].
(1996-11-01)
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