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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

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