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A description of the APT language

By S. A. Brown, C. E. Drayton, B. Mittman
Communications of the ACM, November 1963, Vol. 6 No. 11, Pages 649-658
10.1145/368310.368322
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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 summary of the development of APT and a statement concerning its present status.

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