Natural laws controlling algorithm structure?

  • Authors:
  • M. H. Halstead

  • Affiliations:
  • Purdue University

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 1972

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Abstract

In this preliminary report, a hypothesis is developed to the effect that algorithms, considered as distrillations of thought, may possess a general structure which obeys physical laws. Testing the hypothesis against measurements of published algorithms does not disprove it.