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Alick Glennie and Autocode: The First Step from Machine Orders to Compiled Notation

Alick Glennie’s early-1950s Autocode for the Manchester Mark 1 explored whether programmers could write a more intelligible notation and let a translating program produce machine instructions.

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Tony Brooker and Autocode: Bringing High-Level Programming to Early British Computers

Tony Brooker's Mark 1 Autocode gave Manchester users a higher-level way to express scientific calculations, trading some execution speed for a dramatic reduction in programming difficulty.

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