A Fortran-Compiled List-Processing Language
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
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Communications of the ACM
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ACM '67 Proceedings of the 1967 22nd national conference
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AFIPS '64 (Fall, part I) Proceedings of the October 27-29, 1964, fall joint computer conference, part I
AFIPS '67 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 14-16, 1967, fall joint computer conference
Data file two: a data storage and retrieval system
AFIPS '68 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 30--May 2, 1968, spring joint computer conference
DATAPLUS: a language for real time information retrieval from hierarchical data bases
AFIPS '68 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 30--May 2, 1968, spring joint computer conference
A data description language for hierarchical data files
SIGFIDET '70 Proceedings of the 1970 ACM SIGFIDET (now SIGMOD) Workshop on Data Description, Access and Control
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This paper presents a set of augmentations to the language BEAST (Brookings Economics and Statistical Translator) as part of a continuing effort to define a language for a particular group of computer users, social scientists. In this nebulous group we include professional economists, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and a large number of university students in those disciplines. An important assumption underlying our work has been that the cost of not having substantially better software than presently exists is very large and should be measured in terms of researchers' time. The true cost of inappropriate methods of computer utilization should not be measured by staff and computer costs, but by the social cost of the output foregone. When answers to questions of importance for national public policy formation require weeks, months, or even years to obtain, the cost becomes a social cost that we all eventually bear.