August 1963 - Vol. 6 No. 8
Features
American standard code for information interchange
There was the germ of an idea in two previous papers [1, 2] which no one seems to have picked up in almost five years. For certain functions it seems desirable to…
SABRAC, a time-sharing low-cost computer
The serial SABRAC computer designed and built in the Scientific Department of the Israel Defence Ministry has a 5000-location magnetic drum, main store. To avoid a need…
A list-type storage technique for alphanumeric information
A method which is economic in terms of space and time is proposed for the storage and manipulation of character strings of arbitrary length in a fixed word-length…
Character manipulation in 7090 FORTRAN
The IBM 7090 FORTRAN II language requires that a programmer desiring toa mnipulate characters or strings of characters either assign each character to a separate 7090…
Some remarks on the syntax of symbolic programming languages
This paper concerns some preliminary results of an investigation of certain syntactical features of symbolic programming languages (SPL), which is a part of a wider…
A note on the dangling else ALGOL 60
Some revisions of ALGOL 60 are proposed, which not only eliminate certain ambiguous statements but also add some convenience to the language. A discussion of the…
Continued operation notation for symbol manipulation and array processing
A brief account is given of a notational device that is very useful in the formal representation of syntaxes, string relationships and string transformation procedures…
A computer program for editing the news
The computer news editing program is designed to perform the following functions: (1) it will input automatically those stories from the AP Teletypesetter tape which the…
An exponential method of numerical integration of ordinary differential equations
A formula for numerical integration is prepared, which involves an exponential term. This formula is compared to two standard integration methods, and it is shown that…