Requirements for Advanced Programming Systems for List Processing

Abstract

List processing systems should be designed to facilitate production of large programs to manipulate large complex symbolic data stores. The paper presents an overview of a number of system features which the author feels are important to improve the productivity of programmers working in such domains. A systems view is taken, rather than focusing just on language features, since algorithms not only must be coded in a language form, but debugged, modified, made efficient and run on data. Because of this general framework, the requirements specified are applicable to the design of advanced programming systems for a wide range of applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0739679

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  • Daniel G. Bobrow

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  • BBN Technologies

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Algorithms
  • Classification
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • English Language
  • Grammars
  • Language
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  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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