An introduction to AMBIT/L, a diagrammatic language for list processing

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Christensen

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SYMSAC '71 Proceedings of the second ACM symposium on Symbolic and algebraic manipulation
  • Year:
  • 1971

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Abstract

AMBIT/L is a list-processing programming system. It integrates the general use of recursive functions with a pattern-matching style of programming. Two-dimensional directed-graph diagrams are used to represent the data,and similar diagrams appear throughout the program as the “patterns” of rules. The system has a simple core, but extends out to accommodate the always complicated requirements of input-output, traps and interrupts, and storage management; it is a large system. The PDP-10 implementation of AMBIT/L is described in this paper.