PROGRAMMING THE LOGIC THEORY MACHINE,

Abstract

The Logic Theory Machine (called LT, see P-951) represents a class of non-numerical problems with quite different programming requirements than either normal arithmetic calculations or business data processing. The storage requirements are extremely variable, with the results of many computations being changed in the memory structure. The program itself is a large, complicated hierarchy of subroutines. For LT an intermediate language (interpretive pseudo code) was written for the RAND JOHNNIAC. The paper first characterizes the programming problems involved and then illustrates solutions to them by describing the language. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 28, 1957
Accession Number
AD0422567

Entities

People

  • Allen Newell
  • J. C. Shaw

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arithmetic
  • Commerce
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Hierarchies
  • Language
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Words (Language)

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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