On the machine conversion of B5500 Algol to CDC 6000 Algol

Authors:
Richard E. Marks
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ACM '71 Proceedings of the 1971 26th annual conference
Year:
1971

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Abstract

This paper describes the machine conversion of Algol for the Burroughs B5500 to Algol for the CDC 6000 series. CDC Algol is essentially Algol 60 and is a subset of Burroughs Algol which is the primary language for the B5500. Burroughs Algol implements extensive input-output and file manipulation operations. Burroughs Algol allows bit manipulation; the B5500 and the CDC 6000 series have different internal representations of both arithmetic and boolean quantities An overview of the conversion program is given. A discussion of conversion of the machine dependent constructs and of radically differing syntactic and semantic constructs is presented.