Autocode

Autocode is a class of simple high-level programming languages devised for a series of machines at the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge. An early version was developed for the Ferranti Mercury, which was developed in the 1950s in conjunction with Manchester.

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The version for the EDSAC 2 was devised by D. F. Hartley of University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in 1961. It was ALGOL-like in structure and was optimised for use by scientists and engineers. Developments of it ran on the successor Titan (the prototype Atlas 2 computer), and a similar language was developed for the University of Manchester Atlas 1 machine (see Atlas Autocode).

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High-level programming language: A high-level programming language is a programming language that is more user-friendly, to some extent platform-independent, and abstract from low-level computer processor operations such as memory accesses. See programming language for a detailed discussion....

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Ferranti Mercury: The Mercury was an early 1950s commercial computer built by Ferranti. It was a development of the famous Manchester Mark I, adding a floating point unit for improved performance, and increased reliability by replacing the Williams tube memory with core memory and using more solid state components. N...