PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR AUTOMATIC CHECKOUT EQUIPMENT. VOLUME II. ADAPTED PLACE FOR THE BENDIX AN/GJQ-9.
Abstract
This report describes PLACE, a language for the programming of automatic checkout equipment, and tells how it can be used to write programs for the Bendix AN/GJQ-9, an automatic checkout machine controlled by a punched tape. The language is such that any program can be written for the AN/GJQ-9 without resorting to the use of actual machine language. Programming at the machine language level is done through the use of special statements involving mnemonic symbols and numeric values. In addition to the checkoutmachine-controlling language, the programmer is provided with language to control the complier. With this language he can define new statements which may be in a PLACE determined format, or as English language-like as he wishes to make them. The compiler-control language has facilities for writing arithmetic and Boolean expressions; logic decision tables; and compile-time subroutines, called forms, which may be called recursively. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0426308
Entities
People
- Burton H. Went
Organizations
- Battelle Memorial Institute