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Tag: assembly-language

Kathleen Booth and Early Assembly Language: Giving Machine Instructions Symbolic Names

Kathleen Booth's work on the ARC and APE(X)C machines helped establish an early symbolic notation for programming, replacing parts of raw binary coding with forms that people could read and write more reliably.

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Stan Poley and SOAP: Symbolic Assembly for the IBM 650

Stan Poley's SOAP assembler let IBM 650 programmers use symbolic addresses while the software assigned drum locations intended to reduce rotational delays, combining readability with machine-specific optimization.

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