A format language

ABSTRACT

One of the most primitive parts of a formula language is its specification of input-output actions within the framework of the language. While the specification is intrinsically more complex, say, than the evaluation of an arithmetic expression, most of the difficulties associated with input-output specification arise from the fact that the desired operations have not been properly defined using the framework of a programming language. Indeed, the complexity largely disappears when a programming language is constructed to specify input-output actions. The point to be made here is that the definition of an appropriate programming language makes more rational and simpler all three phases of the input-output programming cycle: (i) source program construction, (ii) object program construction, (iii) object program execution.

REFERENCES

• 1: 20-GATE algebraic compiler. Computation Center, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1961.
• 2: Elliott Irving Organick, A FORTRAN primer (Addison-Wesley series in computer science and information processing), Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Redwood City, CA, 1963
• 3: Michigan algorithmic decoder. Computing Center, University of Michigan, 1963.
• 4: Input-output facilities for extended ALGOL for the B5000. Burroughs Corp., 1961.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications
          Subjects: Specialized application languages

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.3 Language Constructs and Features
          Subjects: Frameworks
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.4 Communications Management
          Subjects: Input/output

General Terms:
Design, Languages, Performance, Theory