The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

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)