Content deleted Content added
Tim Stamper (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Tim Stamper (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
Line 2:
The first Autocoders appear to have been the earliest assemblers to provide a [[Macro (computer science)|macro]] facility.<ref>Solomon 1993, p. 8.</ref>
==History==
The term ''autocoder'' needs to be distinguished from ''[[autocode]]'', a term of the same era which was used in the [[UK]] for languages of a higher level. Both terms derive from the phrase ''[[automatic programming|automatic coding]]'', which referred generally to programs which eased the burden of producing the numeric [[machine language]] codes of programs.<ref>Hopper 1955.</ref> ("Autocoding" is seen occasionally, and can refer to any kind of programming system.) In some circles "autocoder" could be used in a rather generic way to refer to what is now called a macro-assembler.<ref>For an example see Allen 1981, p. 540.</ref>
| |||