By P. J. Brown
Communications of the ACM,
December 1972,
Vol. 15 No. 12, Pages 1059-1062
10.1145/361598.361624
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An increasing amount of software is being implemented in a portable form. A popular way of accomplishing this is to encode the software in a specially designed machine-independent language and then to map this language, often using a macro processor, into the assembly language of each desired object machine. The design of the machine-independent language is the key factor in this operation. This paper discusses the relative merits of pitching this language at a high level or a low level, and presents some comparative results.
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