Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Short Code was one of the first higher-level languages ever developed for an electronic computer.Unlike machine code, Short Code statements represented mathematic expressions rather than a machine instruction.Short Code was proposed by John Mauchly in 1949 and originally known as Brief Code. William Schmitt implemented a version of Brief Code in 1949 for the BINAC computer, though it was never debugged and tested. The following year Schmitt implemented a new version of Brief Code for the UNIVAC I where it was now known as Short Code (also Short Order Code). A revised version of Short Code was developed in 1952 for the Univac II by A. B. Tonik and J. R Logan.