Short Code (computer language)

William Schmitt implemented a version of Brief Code in 1949 for the BINAC computer, though it was never debugged and tested.

[3] While Short Code represented expressions, the representation itself was not direct and required a process of manual conversion.

Elements of an expression were represented by two-character codes and then divided into 6-code groups in order to conform to the 12-byte words used by BINAC and Univac computers.

[4] For example, the expression was converted to Short Code by a sequence of substitutions and a final regrouping: Along with basic arithmetic, Short Code allowed for branching and calls to a library of functions.

The language was interpreted and ran about 50 times slower than machine code.