< 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 ran on the IBM 704 , IBM 709 , and IBM 7090 , and was later ported to Philco , Univac and CDC computers. It was one of the first extensible languages: the user could define his own operators and data types .
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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