Victor H. Yngve, Jean E. Sammet
Page 76
In presenting the following notes I wish to make it clear that they express only my private views. Thus although these views naturally have been greatly influenced by the experience I have gained through my participation in the …
Peter Naur
Pages 77-79
Joseph F. Cunningham
Pages 79-82
The documentation of COMIT reflects the conviction that adequate user manuals are as much a part of a successful problem-oriented language system as is the compiler itself. Without adequate manuals, a language could not be easily …
Victor H. Yngve
Pages 83-84
“The FORTRAN language is intended to be capable of expressing any problem of numerical computation. In particular, it deals easily with problems containing large sets of formulae and many variables, and it permits any variable …
W. P. Heising
Pages 85-86
IPL-V (Information Processing Language-V) is a programming language for list processing and symbol manipulation. It is the fifth of a series of programming languages that has developed as part of a research effort in artificial …
Allen Newell
Pages 86-89
Christopher J. Shaw
Pages 89-91
M. H. Halstead
Pages 91-92
Pages 93-98
In analysis of variance and covariance of data in factorial designs, multidimensional arrays are the rule rather than the exception. The 1620 FORTRAN language is severely limited in its DIMENSION statements in that subscripting …
M. J. Garber
Pages 100-101
Robert J. Mayer
Page 101
Trapping an instruction which cannot normally be trapped can be worthwhile, particularly when an existing program is to be revised. However, under those circumstances one would desire to replace instructions on a one-for-one
…
M. D. Mc Ilroy
Page 101
The following is an account of current documentation on the NELIAC Language.
William S. LaSor
Page 102
Charles J. Mifsud
Page 103
Charles J. Mifsud
Page 103
Charles J. Mifsud
Page 103
Charles J. Mifsud
Page 103
David W. Digby
Page 104
Eva S. Clark
Page 104
Henry E. Fettis
Page 104
Henry C. Thacher
Pages 104-105
Donald L. Laughlin
Page 105
Peter J. Brown
Page 105
The proof of the non-existence of a phrase structure grammar for ALGOL 60 by Robert W. Floyd [
Comm. ACM 5 (Sept. 1962)] depends on the assumption that a syntactically correct ALGOL program must be a block. The concept of “program” …
K. M. Bosworth
Page 105
Gene T. Thompson
Pages 106-107
Presented here is a computational extension of the variate difference method as developed by G. Tintner [1].
Perry A. Scheinok
Pages 107-108
An iterative technique is displayed whereby factors of arbitrary degree can be found for polynomials in one variable. Convergence is shown to occur always if a certain Jacobian does not vanish and if the initial approximation …
H. A. Luther
Pages 108-110
The 7090 at NYU has been modified to include a “Significance Mode” of operation which is intended to facilitate the identification of significant bits in the results of floating-point arithmetic operations. The manner in which …
Max Goldstein
Pages 111-117
The information retrieval problem whose solution is presented here was posed by a technical library with limited budget and personnel. The solution, however, is quite general and is applicable to many different types of retrieval …
V. W. Whitley
Pages 123-126
An interrogation scheme is described for the retrieval and manipulation of data file records. The language of the interrogation scheme allows for
selecting file records with the use of logical condition statements,
defining record …
W. D. Climenson
Pages 117-122
