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Program translation viewed as a general data processing problem

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 9 , Issue 3 (March 1966) table of contents

Pages: 176 - 179

Year of Publication: 1966

ISSN:0001-0782

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Peter Naur

A/S Regnecentralen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Efficiency dictates that the overall effectiveness of a compiler be increased by all means available. For a compiler to have a substantial useful life it needs a clear logical structure, reliability and sound data processing techniques. A compiler must be based on fixed conventions to preserve efficiency and reliability; empty options and default conventions violate this dictum. Use of structure to associate various parts of a program and economy of features promote clarity and reliability.

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	1	NAUR, P. The design of the GIER ALGOL compiler. BIT 8 (1963), 124-140 and 145-166; also in Annual Review in Automatic Programming 4 (Ed. R. Goodman), Pergamon Press, 1964.
	2	NAUR, P. Checking of operands in ALGOL compilers. BIT 5 (1965), 151-163.
	3	JENSEN, J. Generation of machine code in ALGOL compilers. BIT 5 (1965), 235-245.
	4	COBOL-1961, report to conference on data systems languages. US Dept. of Defense, 1961.

CITED BY 4

	Per Brinch Hansen, An outline of a course on operating system principles, The origin of concurrent programming: from semaphores to remote procedure calls, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 2002
	Peter Naur, Computing versus human thinking, Communications of the ACM, v.50 n.1, p.85-94, January 2007
	D. Knuth, Structured programming with go to statements, Classics in software engineering, Yourdon Press, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1979
	Donald E. Knuth, Structured Programming with go to Statements, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.6 n.4, p.261-301, Dec. 1974

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