autocoder

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autocoder - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  AUTOCODER
  
     <language> Possibly the first primitive compiler.  AUTOCODER
     was written by Alick E. Glennie in 1952.  It translated
     symbolic statements into machine language for the
     Manchester Mark I computer.
  
     Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language
      programming.
  
     (1994-11-07)