A base for a mobile programming system

  • Authors:
  • Richard J. Orgass;William M. Waite

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1969

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Abstract

An algorithm for a macro processor which has been used as the base of an implementation, by bootstrapping, of processors for programming languages is described. This algorithm can be easily implemented on contemporary computing machines. Experience with programming languages whose implementation is based on this algorithm indicates that such a language can be transferred to a new machine in less than one man-week without using the old machine.