A programming language

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth E. Iverson

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York

  • Venue:
  • AIEE-IRE '62 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 1-3, 1962, spring joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1962

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Abstract

The paper describes a succinct problem-oriented programming language. The language is broad in scope, having been developed for, and applied effectively in, such diverse areas as microprogramming, switching theory, operations research, information retrieval, sorting theory, structure of compilers, search procedures, and language translation. The language permits a high degree of useful formalism. It relies heavily on a systematic extension of a small set of basic operations to vectors, matrices, and trees, and on a family of flexible selection operations controlled by logical vectors. Illustrations are drawn from a variety of applications.