Michigan Algorithm Decoder

Michigan Algorithm Decoder

(language)(MAD) An early programming language, based onIAL, developed at the University of Michigan by R. Graham,Bruce Arden, and Bernard Galler in 1959. MAD was one of thefirst extensible languages: the user could define his ownoperators and data types.

MAD ran on the IBM 704, IBM 709 and IBM 7090. It wasported to the IBM 7040 at the City College of New York byRobert Teitel and also to Philco, Univac and CDCcomputers.

Mad/1 was a later version.

["Michigan Algorithm Decoder (The MAD Manual)", U MichiganComputing Center, 1966].

[Sammet 1969, p. 205].