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language (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for

mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to

execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and later on UNIVACI and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a

high level language.

[Sammet 1969, p. 129].

(1996-11-01)

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