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MIRFAC: a compiler based on standard mathematical notation and plain English

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 6 , Issue 9 (September 1963) table of contents

Pages: 545 - 547

Year of Publication: 1963

ISSN:0001-0782

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H. J. Gawlik

Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment, Fort Halstead, England, U.K.

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A pilot version of the compiler MIRFAC, now in the operation, is described. The chief features of the system, which is intended for the solution of scientific problems, are the presentation of mathematical formulas entirely in standard textbook notation. The use of plain English for organizational instructions, automatic error diagnosis indicating the actual location of the error in the uncompiled program, and an attempt to minimize that fragmentation of the original problem statement which is a normal feature of programming systems.

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Mark B. Wells, MADCAP: a scientific compiler for a displayed formula textbook language, Communications of the ACM, v.4 n.1, p.31-36, Jan. 1961 [doi>10.1145/366062.366080]

CITED BY 11

	Jean E. Sammet, Survey of formula manipulation, Communications of the ACM, v.9 n.8, p.555-569, Aug. 1966
	John H. Matthewman, The dangling “else”, Communications of the ACM, v.7 n.3, p.165, March 1964
	Melvin Klerer , Jack May, An experiment in a user-oriented computer system, Communications of the ACM, v.7 n.5, p.290-294, May 1964
	Richard D. Whittaker, More on reducing truncation errors, Communications of the ACM, v.7 n.12, p.736, Dec. 1964
	H. J. Gawlik, MIRFAC: a reply to Professor Dijkstra, Communications of the ACM, v.7 n.10, p.571, Oct. 1964
	Mark B. Wells, Preprocessing of typed two-dimensional mathematical expressions, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.11 n.9, September 1976
	John M. Scofield, Futher comment on the MIRFAC controversy, Communications of the ACM, v.7 n.12, p.736, Dec. 1964
	E. W. Dijkstra, Some comments on the aims of MIRFAC, Communications of the ACM, v.7 n.3, p.190, March 1964
	Melvin Klerer , Fred Grossman, Further advances in two-dimensional input-output by typewriter terminals, Proceedings of the November 14-16, 1967, fall joint computer conference, November 14-16, 1967, Anaheim, California
	Melvin Klerer , Jack May, Two-dimensional programming, Proceedings of the November 30--December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, part I, November 30-December 01, 1965, Las Vegas, Nevada
	Mark Halpern, Foundations of the case for natural-language programming, Proceedings of the November 7-10, 1966, fall joint computer conference, November 07-10, 1966, San Francisco, California

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