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An extension of ALGOL-like languages


Bounded context syntactic analysis

Certain phase structure grammars define languages in which the phrasehood and structure of a substring of a sentence may be determined by consideration of only a bounded context of the substring. It is possible to determine,bounded …

FORTRAN IV as a syntax language


Formalism in programming languages


A format language

One of the most primitive parts of a formula language is its specification of input-output actions within the framework of the language. While the specification is intrinsically more complex, say, than the evaluation of an arithmetic …

Beginnings of a theory of information handling


A general business-oriented language based on decision expressions

The structure of a digital computer programming language which covers a wide class of business and file processing applications is presented. Such a structure, based on identifying and incorporating into a compiler the aspects …

Some effects of the 6600 computer on language structures

The problem of compiling efficient 6600 codes prompted the development of an intermediate language reflecting the structure of the machine, that is more easily manipulated in improving object program efficiency. The subject of …

A programming package for some general modes of arithmetic

An interpretive programming package is described for computation with operands which may be real, complex, single or double precision, or real multiple precision. It also performs operations on matrices formed from these elements …

An extension to ALGOL for manipulating formulae


On context and ambiguity in parsing

This note is by way of commentary on the notions of “bounded context” of Floyd [1] and “structural connections” of Irons [2], as these notions relate to as yet unpublished researches growing out of the development of the author's …

Summary remarks

The topics began with discussion of almost exclusively syntactic analysis and methods. Beginning with context-free phrase-structure languages, we considered limitations thereof to remove generative syntactic ambiguities (Floyd) …

“Structural connections” in formal languages

This paper defines the concept of “structural connection” in a mechanical language in an attempt to classify various formal languages according to the complexity of parsing structures on strings in the languages. Languages discussed …