A PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGE AND A TRANSLATOR FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.
Abstract
No high level problem oriented computer language is available to study and solve continuous systems characterized by partial differential equations; furthermore, conventional methods to handle such problems on a computer are very time consuming. Therefore, two main goals are accomplished: (1) a convenient, easy to learn and to use, high level problem oriented language to solve and study partial differential equation problems is designed; and (2) a feasible translator for the language is designed, and a preliminary version of it is constructed for a significant portion of the language. The translator is written in preprocessor PL/1 and translates from PDEL into PL/1. The PL/1 program generated is then processed like any other PL/1 program. The implemented PDEL is as much on line as standard PL/1. The translator is machine independent and can be used in any machine with a standard PL/1 compiler. The main goal of the PDEL language and translator is to ease and speed up the total problem solving time, mainly by significantly reducing the programming effort - usually the largest portion of total problem solving time. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0679725
Entities
People
- A. F. Cardenas
Organizations
- University of California, Los Angeles