A-0 System Dead
A-0 System
KindProgramming language
Appeared1952
Ended1955
StatusDead
CreatorGrace Hopper / Remington Rand
FamilyIndependent
Also known asA-0
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗
Grace Hopper's 1952 system for the UNIVAC — the first program to translate symbolic specifications into machine code, and the ancestor of the very word 'compiler'.
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Created by Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper's A-0 (1952) for UNIVAC was the first compiler — a system that translated symbolic routines into machine code, inventing the subroutine library and the word 'compiler.'\n\nA-2 and A-3 followed; the concept of code generation rather than interpretation was Hopper's breakthrough.