> The first autocode and its compiler were developed by Alick Glennie in 1952 for the Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester and is considered by some to be the first compiled programming language.
which seemingly contradicts the implication in the NTY article that Booker was the principal author of Autocode.
It seems Booker and Glennie were coworkers at Turing's lab. Anyone know more?
EDIT: The Glennie claim is sourced to a 1976 paper coauthored by Donald Knuth, where Knuth says
> The unsung hero of this development was Alick E. Glennie of Fort Halstead, the Royal Armaments Research Establishment. We may justly say "unsung" because it is very difficult to deduce from the published literature that Glennie introduced this system.
There's no contradiction here, because Glennie's first attempt as autocode isn't referred to as "Mark 1 Autocode" (despite running on the Mark 1). Apparently it wasn't an influence on later developments. Wikipedia is pretty clear about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode
"Previous to Brooker's work, Alick Glennie who was an MOS external user of the machine had developed his personal automatic coding scheme in the summer of 1952. Glennie's system, which he called autocode, was very machine-dependent and was not released to other users." -- Early computing in Britain, 1948-1958, pg 257
> The first autocode and its compiler were developed by Alick Glennie in 1952 for the Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester and is considered by some to be the first compiled programming language.
which seemingly contradicts the implication in the NTY article that Booker was the principal author of Autocode.
It seems Booker and Glennie were coworkers at Turing's lab. Anyone know more?
EDIT: The Glennie claim is sourced to a 1976 paper coauthored by Donald Knuth, where Knuth says
> The unsung hero of this development was Alick E. Glennie of Fort Halstead, the Royal Armaments Research Establishment. We may justly say "unsung" because it is very difficult to deduce from the published literature that Glennie introduced this system.
https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA032123/page/n43