babbage

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

  Babbage
  
     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.
  
     [1980's article in Datamation].