The SCRATCHPAD language

  • Authors:
  • R. D. Jenks

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

SCRATCHPAD is an interactive system for symbolic mathematical computation. Its user language, originally intended as a special-purpose non-procedural language, was designed to capture the style and succinctness of common mathematical notations, and to serve as a useful, effective tool for on-line problem solving. This paper describes extensions to the language which enable it to serve also as a high-level programming language, both for the formal description of mathematical algorithms and their efficient implementation.