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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 13 , Issue 1 (January 1970) table of contents

Pages: 31 - 40

Year of Publication: 1970

ISSN:0001-0782

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Edgar T. Irons

Institute for Defense Analyses, Princeton, NJ

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

An operational extensible language system is described. The system and its base language are appraised with respect to efficiency, flexibility, and utility for different categories of users.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
ambiguity, bootstrapping, compiler, extensible, programming languages

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