Babbage

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Babbage
       
          The structured {assembly language} for the {General Electric
          Company} 4xxx range of computers and their {OS4000} {operating
          system}.  It is strictly an assembler in that the generated
          code is relatively predictable but it can be written in a


          sufficiently structured manner, with indentation, control
          statements, function and procedure calls, to make the
          resultant source easy to read and manage.  Even with this
          visible structure however, it is important to remember that
          the assembly of the statement is done left to right.
       
          The British {videotext} system, {Prestel} is programmed in
          Babbage.
       
          [1980's article in Datamation].