Syntactic Analysis and Operator Precedence
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Letters to the editor: go to statement considered harmful
Communications of the ACM
A proposal for definitions in ALGOL
Communications of the ACM
EULER: a generalization of ALGOL, and its formal definition: Part II
Communications of the ACM
The next 700 programming languages
Communications of the ACM
An environment for an operating system
ACM '64 Proceedings of the 1964 19th ACM national conference
A general-purpose table-driven compiler
AFIPS '64 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 21-23, 1964, spring joint computer conference
The introduction of definitional facilities into higher level programming languages
AFIPS '66 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 7-10, 1966, fall joint computer conference
PUMPKIN: (another) microprogramming language
ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
Definition mechanisms in extensible programming languages
AFIPS '70 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 17-19, 1970, fall joint computer conference
A language-oriented computer design
AFIPS '70 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 17-19, 1970, fall joint computer conference
Data structures in the extensible programming language AEPL
AFIPS '72 (Fall, part I) Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part I
Multiple evaluators in an extensible programming system
AFIPS '72 (Fall, part II) Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part II
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There are two basic premises which underlie the development of ELF. The first of these is that there exists a need for a wide variety of programming languages; indeed, our progress in the understanding and application of computers will demand an ever widening variety of languages. There are, in fact, "scientific" problems, "data processing" problems, "information retrieval" problems, "symbol manipulation" problems, "text handling" problems, and so on. From the point of view of a computer user who is working in one or more of these areas there are certain units of data with which he would like to transact and there are certain unit operations which he would like to perform on these data. The user will be able to make effective use of a computer only when the language facilities provided allow him to work toward a desired result in terms of data and operations which he chooses as being a natural representation of his conception of the problem solution. That is, it is not enough to have a language facility which is formally sufficient to allow the user to solve his problem; indeed, most available programming languages are, to within certain size limitations, universal languages. Rather, the facility must be natural for him to use in the solution of his particular problem.