Good old Autocode. Finally you didn't need to enter all instructions by number, it was considered a great leap forward at the time...
The first autocode and its compiler were developed by Alick Glennie in 1952 for the Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester and is considered by some to be the first compiled programming language. His main goal was to make the programming of Mark 1 machine, known for its partcularly abstruse machine code, comprehensible. Although the resulting language was much clearer than the machine code, it was still very machine dependent.
Funny that I felt the scripting side of while reading some projects like wmii, or some plan9 utils. I'm under the impression that in UNIX early days, C was almost a rapid prototyping / scripting language.
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Well, when I started programming, C and Pascal execution speed were looked down like managed runtimes are still nowadays.
Serious application development for consumer computers was done in straight Assembly. Anything higher than that was "scripting". :)
Back when digital, electronic computers were new, assembly was called "automatic programming".
Good old Autocode. Finally you didn't need to enter all instructions by number, it was considered a great leap forward at the time...
The first autocode and its compiler were developed by Alick Glennie in 1952 for the Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester and is considered by some to be the first compiled programming language. His main goal was to make the programming of Mark 1 machine, known for its partcularly abstruse machine code, comprehensible. Although the resulting language was much clearer than the machine code, it was still very machine dependent.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode
Funny that I felt the scripting side of while reading some projects like wmii, or some plan9 utils. I'm under the impression that in UNIX early days, C was almost a rapid prototyping / scripting language.