michigan algorithm decoder

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Michigan Algorithm Decoder

   <language> (MAD) An early programming language, based on
   {IAL}, developed at the University of Michigan by R. Graham,
   Bruce Arden, and Bernard Galler in 1959.  MAD was one of the
   first {extensible languages}: the user could define his own
   {operators} and {data types}.

   MAD ran on the {IBM 704}, {IBM 709} and {IBM 7090}.  It was
   ported to the {IBM 7040} at the City College of New York by
   Robert Teitel and also to {Philco}, {Univac} and {CDC}
   computers.

   {Mad/1} was a later version.

   ["Michigan Algorithm Decoder (The MAD Manual)", U Michigan
   Computing Center, 1966].

   [Sammet 1969, p. 205].

   (2005-02-09)