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'''GEORGE''' (General Order Generator) is a [[programming language]] invented by [[Charles Leonard Hamblin]] in 1957.<ref name="Hamblin_1957_1" /><ref name="Hamblin_1957_2" /><ref name="Hamblin_1957_3" /><ref name="Hamblin_1958" /> It was designed around a push-down pop-up stack for arithmetic operations, and employed [[reverse Polish notation]].<ref name="Beard_1997" /> The language included [[loop (computing)|loop]]s, [[subroutine]]s, [[conditional (programming)|conditional]]s, [[array data structure|vector]]s, and [[matrix (mathematics)|matrices]].

It was designed around a push-down pop-up stack for arithmetic operations, and employed [[reverse Polish notation]].<ref name="Beard_1997" />

The language included [[loop (computing)|loop]]s, [[subroutine]]s, [[conditional (programming)|conditional]]s, [[array data structure|vector]]s, and [[matrix (mathematics)|matrices]].

==Description==

Algebraic expressions were written in reverse Polish notation; thus, <math>a + b</math> was written <code>a b +</code>, and similarly for the other arithmetic operations of subtraction, multiplication, and division.