< language > (AED) (Or "ALGOL Extended for Design") A systems language for the IBM 7090 and IBM 360 developed at MIT System Laboratory ca. 1965 by a team led by Douglas T. Ross (now at Softech ). AED is an extension of ALGOL 60 with records ("plexes"), pointers, and dynamic allocation . DYNAMO II was written in AED, as was the first BCPL compiler .
Versions: AED-0, AED-1, AED-JR.
["The Automated Engineering Design (AED) Approach to Generalized Computer-Aided Design", D.T. Ross, Proc ACM 22nd Natl Conf, 1967].
[Sammet 1969 and 1978].
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