language (MAD) An early programming language, based on
IAL, developed at the University of Michigan by R. Graham, Bruce Arden, and Bernard Galler in 1959. MAD was one of the first extensible languages: the user could define his own
operators and data types.
MAD ran on the
IBM 704,
IBM 709 and
IBM 7090. It was ported to the
IBM 7040 at the City College of New York by Robert Teitel and also to Philco,
Univac and
CDC computers.
Mad/1 was a later version.
["Michigan Algorithm Decoder (The MAD Manual)", U Michigan Computing Center, 1966].
[Sammet 1969, p. 205].
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