April 1960 - Vol. 3 No. 4
Features
Syntactic and semantic augments to ALGOL
The purpose of this paper is to propose a set of syntactic and semantic augments to ALGOL. The proposed extension are designed to facilitate the description of…
Macro instruction extensions of compiler languages
Macroinstruction compilers constructed from a small set of functions can be made extremely powerful. In particular, conditional assembly, nested definitions, and…
Decoding combinations of the first n integers taken k at a time
The following problem arose in connection with some studies involving game programming: the representation of any position in the game tree was formed by a sequence of k…
A control system for logical block diagnosis with data loading
This paper describes a section of an integrated diagnostic monitor system which facilitates the checking of sections of instructions or subroutines anywhere in the object…
For centuries the decimal number system reigned supreme, except, perhaps, among the Mayan Indians, until the advent of digital computers brought the binary and octal…