The Structure of Directly Executed Languages: A New Theory of Interpretive System Design.

Abstract

This paper concerns two important issues in the design of optimal languages for direct execution in an interpretive system: binding the operand identifiers in an executable instruction unit to the arguments of the routine implementing the operator defined by that instruction; and binding operand identifiers to execution variables. These issues are central to the performance of a system, both in space and time.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA051702

Entities

People

  • Lee W. Hoevel
  • Michael J. Flynn

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Addressing
  • Algorithms
  • Coding
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Decoding
  • Identification
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Language
  • Lists (Data Structures)
  • Machine Languages
  • Military Research
  • Programming Languages
  • Trees (Data Structures)

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.

Technology Areas

  • Space