By Nan C. Shu, Barron C. Housel, Vincent Y. Lum
Communications of the ACM,
October 1975,
Vol. 18 No. 10, Pages 557-567
10.1145/361020.361023
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This paper describes a high level and nonprocedural translation definition language, CONVERT, which provides very powerful and highly flexible data restructuring capabilities. Its design is based on the simple underlying concept of a form which enables the users to visualize the translation processes, and thus makes data translation a much simpler task.
“CONVERT” has been chosen for conveying the purpose of the language and should not be confused with any other language or program bearing the same name.
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