from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Babbage
<language> The structured {assembly language} for the {General
Electric Company} 4xxx range of computers and their {OS4000}
{operating system}. It is strictly an assembler in that the
generated code is relatively predictable but it can be written
in a sufficiently structured manner, with indentation, control
statements, function and procedure calls, to make the
resultant source easy to read and manage. Even with this
visible structure however, it is important to remember that
the assembly of the statement is done left to right.
The British {videotext} system, {Prestel} is programmed in
Babbage.
[Datamation, 1980s].
(2007-10-24)