ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING FUNCTIONS AND COMPUTING SYSTEMS,

Abstract

Automatic programming is defined as the process of utilizing a computer program to accept sophisticated procedural descriptions as data in order to produce machine executable sequences of instructions as answers. The translation, memory allocation and diagnostics functions of automatic programming compose an interface between the computing system and the user. The library of subroutines available through automatic programming acts as an extension of the computing system. Ability to accept a variety of programming languages, data structures and subroutines provides flexibility to the computing system. Techniques of automatic programming will change while the functional relationship to the computing system will remain the same. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0612619

Entities

People

  • Robert M. Dunn

Organizations

  • United States Army Communications-Electronics Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Automatic
  • Automatic Programming
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Language
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Programming Languages

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development