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:''This article is about the early computer language Short Code. For the use of this term in connection with telecommunications, see [[Short code]]''.
[[John Mauchly]]'s '''Short Code''' (also called '''Short Order Code''') was the first [[programming language]]<ref name=Sebesta>Sebesta, W.S Concepts of Programming languages. 2006;M6 14:18 pp.44. ISBN# 0-321-33025-0</ref> to be actually implemented and used on electronic computing devices, first [[BINAC]] (1949) and later [[UNIVAC]] (1952).<ref name=hopl>Wexelblat, Richard L. (Ed.) (1981). <em>History of Programming Languages</em>, p. 9. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-745040-8</ref> Prior to this, computers were programmed manually in [[machine code]]. Short Code allowed programmers to use an interpreted [[pseudocode]] supported by a library of [[subroutines]].
Short Code was the predecessor to [[Speedcoding]], which extended Short Code by allowing for floating point calculations, and providing code representation for the four calculation operators (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). [[Grace Murray Hopper]] cites it as an influence on her early [[compiler]] work.<ref name=hopl/>
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