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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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