Autocoder

Autocoder was possibly the first primitive compiler. It was written by Alick E. Glennie in 1952, and translated symbolic statements into machine language for the Manchester Mark I computer.

Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language programming.

See also Autocode.

This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.