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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 7 , Issue 2 (February 1964) table of contents

Pages: 89 - 97

Year of Publication: 1964

ISSN:0001-0782

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A. J. Perlis

Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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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.

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	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.

CITED BY 2

	D. E. Knuth, A proposal for input-output conventions in ALGOL 60, Communications of the ACM, v.7 n.5, p.273-283, May 1964
	Jerome A. Feldman, A formal semantics for computer languages and its application in a compiler-compiler, Communications of the ACM, v.9 n.1, p.3-9, Jan. 1966