Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Laning and Zierler
     
         Possibly the first true working algebraic
        {compiler}.  Written by J.H. Laning Jr and N. Zierler in
        1953-1954 to run on {MIT}'s {Whirlwind} computer.
     
        [Sammet 1969, pp. 131-132].
     
        [Did the language have a name?]
     
        (1994-11-01)