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Invited papers: History of writing compilers
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Proceedings of the 1962 ACM national conference on Digest of technical papers table of contents
Page: 43  
Year of Publication: 1962
Author
D. E. Knuth
Sponsor
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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Downloads (6 Weeks): 5,   Downloads (12 Months): 30,   Citation Count: 3
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ABSTRACT

THIS PAPER will discuss the evolution of techniques used in writing compilers, from IT and FORTRAN to the present day. Five years ago it was very difficult to explain the internal mechanisms of a compiler, since the various phases of translation were jumbled together into a huge, sprawling algorithm. The passing of time has shown how to distinguish the various components of this process, revealing a basic simplicity.


CITED BY  3
Jerome Feldman , David Gries, Translator writing systems, Communications of the ACM, v.11 n.2, p.77-113, Feb. 1968
Ravi Sethi, Control flow aspects of semantics directed compiling (Summary), ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.17 n.6, p.245-260, June 1982
Ravi Sethi, Control Flow Aspects of Semantics-Directed Compiling, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), v.5 n.4, p.554-595, Oct. 1983

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.4 Processors
          Subjects: Translator writing systems and compiler generators


General Terms:
Algorithms, Performance

Collaborative Colleagues:
D. E. Knuth: colleagues

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