By H. Hellerman
Communications of the ACM,
July 1964,
Vol. 7 No. 7, Pages 433-438
10.1145/364520.364573
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A system designed for intimate man-machine interaction in a general-purpose problem-solving environment is experimentally operational. The system utilizes an array-oriented symbolic source language containing powerful statement types. These include numeric, Boolean, relational and selection operators on operands which can be entire arrays. The system also permits simple specification of test and argument arrays in single statements.
The completely symbolic operating system includes display and entry of program and data. Sequence control is aided by an interrupt switch which allows the user to interact with the program during execution. In addition to normal stored program sequencing, the system provides trace options and the ability to enter any statement for immediate execution.
Present implementation of the system is with an interpretive translator on an IBM 1620 computer.
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