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Short Code (computer language)

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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[1] to be actually implemented and used on electronic computing devices, first BINAC (1949) and later UNIVAC (1952).[2] 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.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Sebesta, W.S Concepts of Programming languages. 2006;M6 14:18 pp.44. ISBN# 0-321-33025-0
  2. ^ a b Wexelblat, Richard L. (Ed.) (1981). History of Programming Languages, p. 9. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-745040-8

References

  • Schmitt, William F. The UNIVAC SHORT CODE. Annals of the History of Computing (1988) 10:7-18

See also

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