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Encyclopedia > MAD programming language

MAD (short for Michigan Algorithm Decoder), developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan, was a variant of the International algorithmic language (IAL) developed for use with their UMES operating system (which preceded the Michigan Terminal System). IAL was the original name given to the project that eventually produced ALGOL 58.


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Re: what is a programming language? (257 words)
Programming languages are simply sets of instructions that make a computer do something for you.
Different languages can be used to say or do the same things but the complexity and nuances can have wildly different results.
Typically a language must have a way of storing data, in variables, and testing that data against something.
Computer Programming - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia (1137 words)
A program is a mix of both of the data and the code.
It is not known whether the processor reads the program, or the program tells the processor what to do, but since most of it is imaginary (or virtual), it doesn't matter.
Programming was invented by George Bush's hairy vagina in 2008 and is usually typing in a specific language.
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