The APT (Automatically Programmed Tools) language for numerical control programming is described using the metalinguistic notation introduced in the ALGOL 60 report. Examples of APT usage are included. Presented also are an historical …
S. A. Brown, C. E. Drayton, B. Mittman
Pages 649-658
A considerable number of glossaries in the area of information processing have been produced in the USA in the last ten years [1, 2]. In some cases the glossaries were reworked versions of earlier glossaries, while in other cases …
J. F. Traub
Pages 658-659
Early in June 1963 there was a meeting in Berlin [1] of the Subcommittee for Programming Languages, SC5 of TC97, the Technical Committee for Standardization of Computers and Information Processing [2]. Taking advantage of the …
John A. Gosden, Roger E. Gay, John L. Jones, Jack N. Merner, Christopher J. Shaw
Pages 660-661
J. M. S. Simões Pereira
Page 662
Henry C. Thacher
Page 662
Henry C. Thacher
Page 663
P. E. Hennion
Page 663
Richard George
Page 663
The need to determine minimum paths through a maze very often arises in such fields as traffic, transportation, communication and network studies. Computer analysis of these maze problems has been hampered in many cases due to …
Don L. Weimer
Pages 664-666
An oft-mentioned advantage of ALGOL over FORTRAN is the recursion capability of the former. FORTRAN adherents often belittle this advantage by claiming that all recursive relations can be reduced to recurrence or iterative relations …
James A. Ayers
Pages 667-668
An increasing number of computer programs are designed to accept and translate a symbolic, English-like language which facilitates communication between the user and the computer. A common feature of such programs is a pre-determined …
R. G. Loomis, J. Rubin
Page 668
During the past few years, research into so-called “Syntax Directed Compiler” and “Compiler Compiler” techniques [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] has given hope that constructing computer programs for translating formal languages may not be …
E. T. Irons
Pages 669-673
MADCAP is a programming language admitting subscripts, superscripts and certain forms of displayed formulas. The basic implementation of this language was described in a previous paper [MADCAP: A scientific compiler for a displayed …
Mark B. Wells
Pages 674-678
A major component of a bit-time computer simulation program is the Boolean compiler. The compiler accepts the Boolean functions representing the simulated computer's digital circuits, and generates corresponding sets of machine …
Jesse H. Katz
Pages 679-685
Detailed statistics are given on the length of maximal sorted strings which result from the first (internal sort) phase of a merge sort onto tapes. It is shown that the strings produced by an alternating method (i.e. one which …
Donald E. Knuth
Pages 685-688
I. C. Tang
Page 689
A series of clinical laboratory codes have been developed to accept and store urinalysis, blood chemistry, and hematology test results for automatic data processing. The codes, although constructed as part of a computerized hospital …
Leonard D. Gross
Pages 690-694
In the course of our work on the physical chemistry of histamine and related compounds, we have done extensive work involving potentiometric titration of systems of chelates of these ligands with various metallic ions, negative …
A. C. Andrews, John Hassler, Frank DeCou
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