| | The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages |
 | | But a half hour of computer time after a few hoursandquot; programming in autocode is a more economic proposition for a one-off job, or trial of a routine job, than several weeks on programming, followed, after several trials, by a successful five-minute run on the computer. |
 | | One of these was an analysis of a market survey for household trays in which interviews were conducted with some 1,100 households, covering 17 general questions and 10 observations of each tray found at the house: these questionnaires were analysed and 17 tables for the internal report were printed direct from the computer output tape. |
 | | By this time the AUTOCODE language had become, rather like a developed human language, a mixture of primitive and sophisticated elements; it was clear that the next stage of development must include rationalisation as well as further extension. |
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