Editing Atlas Autocode (section)

{{short description|1960s computer programming language}}
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{{Infobox programming language
| name = Atlas Autocode
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| paradigms = [[Procedural programming|Procedural]], [[Imperative programming|imperative]], [[Structured programming|structured]]
| family = [[ALGOL]]
| designers = [[Tony Brooker]], Derrick Morris
| developer = [[University of Manchester]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1963}}<!-- If known, add |mm|dd|df=yes -->
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| typing = [[Static type|Static]], [[Strong and weak typing|strong]]
| scope = [[Scope (computer science)|Lexical]]
| programming language = [[ALGOL 60]]
| discontinued = Yes
| platform = [[Atlas (computer)|Atlas]]<br/>[[English Electric KDF9]]
| operating system = Supervisor
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| implementations = [[Edinburgh IMP]]
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| influenced by = [[ALGOL 60]]
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'''Atlas Autocode''' ('''AA''')<ref name="AA">{{Cite web |last=Brooker |first=R.A. |last2=Rohl |first2=J.S. |date=1965 |url=https://history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/archive/docs/Atlas_Autocode_1965.pdf |title=Atlas Autocode Reference Manual |publisher=University of Manchester Computer Science Department }} ([http://history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/archive/scans/atlas_autocode_manual/ Original scans] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116114819/http://history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/archive/scans/atlas_autocode_manual/ |date=2019-01-16 }})</ref><ref name="AA_ED">{{Cite web |last=Schofoeld |first=P.D. |last2=Osbourne |first2=M.R. |date=1965 |url=http://history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/archive/docs/CU-Rep-1-AA.pdf |title=Programming in Atlas Autocode, Computer Unit Report No. 1 |publisher=University of Edinburgh |access-date=2006-04-12 |archive-date=2020-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515162223/http://history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/archive/docs/CU-Rep-1-AA.pdf |url-status=dead }} ([http://compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~bfoley/edhist/CU-Rep-1-AA/CU-Rep-1-AA.html Original scans] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721125558/http://compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~bfoley/edhist/CU-Rep-1-AA/CU-Rep-1-AA.html |date=2011-07-21 }})</ref> is a [[programming language]] developed around 1963 at the [[University of Manchester]]. A variant of the language [[ALGOL]], it was developed by [[Tony Brooker]] and Derrick Morris for the [[Atlas (computer)|Atlas]] computer. The initial AA and AB compilers were written by Jeff Rohl and Tony Brooker using the Brooker-Morris [[Compiler Compiler |Compiler-compiler]], with a later hand-coded non-CC implementation (ABC) by Jeff Rohl.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://curation.cs.manchester.ac.uk/atlas/docs/Brooker%20Atlas%20CC%20rev%20April%202016bb.pdf |title=Tony Brooker and the Atlas Compiler Compiler |date=February 2014 |access-date=2024-02-16 }}</ref>

The word ''[[Autocode]]'' was basically an early term for ''programming language''. Different autocodes could vary greatly.