The MDL Programming Language,

Abstract

The MDL programming language began existence in late 1970 (under the name Muddle) as a successor to Lisp (Moon, 1974), a candidate vehicle for the Dynamic Modeling System, and a possible base for implementation of Planner (Hewitt, 1969). The original design goals included and interactive integrated environment for programming, debugging, loading, and editing; ease in learning and use: facilities for structured, modular, shared programs; extensibility of syntax, data types and operators; data-type checking for debugging and optional data-type declarations for compiled efficiency: associative storage, coroutining, and graphics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA070930

Entities

People

  • Greg Pfister
  • Stuart W. Galley

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accumulators
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Content Addressable Memory
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Debugging
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Military Research
  • Operating Systems
  • Photoacoustic Tomography
  • Programming Languages
  • Side Effects
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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