A computer program or system that automatically generates code or programs, or historically, an early assembly language program that created machine code from symbolic instructions.
From 'auto-' (self) and 'coder' (one who codes). The term emerged in early computing when programs that could generate other programs were revolutionary.
Autocoders were some of the very first programming tools—in the 1950s, they were incredible because they let programmers write symbolic instructions that the autocoder would convert to machine code. Today we'd call them compilers or interpreters, but 'autocoder' reminds us that self-generating code is an old dream.
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