Short Code

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Aliases: Brief Code, UNIVAC Short Code
Provenance: commit ed3b537172 · authored 2026-02-06T14:35:29+01:00 · agent claude-code · model sonnet

Sources mentioning this language

3 sources · pl_id: pl/short-code
LLM (this repo) · 1WikipediaWikidata · Q2566011

Wikipedia infobox ↗

Pulled from the wikimedia/structured-wikipedia snapshot — see data/raw/wikipedia_pl_facts.*.jsonl and pl_fact.csv for the long-table provenance.

Designed byWilliam F Schmitt · A. B. Tonik · J. R. Logan
First appeared1950
Influenced byENIAC Short Code

Related languages

EXEC (0.17)Pencil Code (0.13)WTFCode (0.12)Redcode (0.12)Mindcode (0.12)

Real programs from Software Heritage

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Mathematical Expression Example

Provenance: commit ed3b537172 · authored 2026-02-06T14:35:29+01:00 · agent claude-code · model sonnet · WebSearch enabled
code.short · added: 2026-02-06T13:34:45Z
X3 = (X1 + Y1) / X1 * Y1

Variables:
  X1 = b
  Y1 = c
  X3 = a

This computes: a = (b + c) / b * c

Encoded representation:
X3 03 09 X1 07 Y1 02 04 X1 Y1

Grouped into 12-byte words:
07Y10204X1Y1
0000X30309X1

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