short code

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

Short Code

   <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 {UNIVAC
   I} and II.  Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a
   {high level language}.

   [Sammet 1969, p. 129].

   (1996-11-01)