Topic: history of programming
Topic: programmer productivity
Topic: history of computers
Group: digital communication
Topic: data caching
Topic: ease of learning
Topic: minimal manuals and guided exploration
Topic: learning a programming language
Topic: marketing technical products and innovations
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Reference
Campbell-Kelly, M., ,
"Programming the Mark I: Early programming activity at the University of Manchester",
Annals of the History of Computing, AFIPS, 2, 2, pp. 130-168, April 1980.
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Quotations
133 ;;Quote: Strachey's first program was 20 pages long; after fixing a couple of errors, it ran to completion and played "God Save the King"
| 135 ;;Quote: "up transfer" and "down transfer" because the Mark I placed electrostatic memory on a lower floor than its magnetic drum and teleprinter
| 156 ;;Quote: AUTOCODE was an early automatic coding system tied to the Mark I; only one user; no scaling
| 161 ;;Quote: Brooker's Autocode for nonexpert users; custom teleprinter; included complex variables and the Runge-Kutta solution of differential equations
| 161 ;;Quote: Autocode's one-level store, a cache, automatically moved floating-point variables between drum disks and electronic store
| 163 ;;Quote: quickly teach Autocode in hours; the standard account defined Autocode on two pages
| 163+;;Quote: Autocode reduced programming and testing time by up to a factor of one hundred
| 163+;;Quote: postal Autocode service for producing programs from requests; less than a week turnaroud
| 165 ;;Quote: success of Autocode due to ease of use, fulfilled a need, effective selling, and committed support
| 165+;;Quote: Autocode supported by programming courses, a postal service, documentation, and consultancy
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