Autocoder

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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 was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.
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