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Design of a Minimal Expandable Computer Language

by Bell, James Richard

Technical Note 1
Institution: AI Center, SRI International
Address: 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Dec 1968.

Note: A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Computer Science and the Committee on the Graduate Division of Stanford U in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

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This presents several results relevant to the design of computer languages and compilers. The first chapter derives a class of solutions to the problem of reducing redundancy in multidimensional data arrays, thus generalizing the concept of syntactic precedence functions. The second chapter presents a description of a new computer language, which has the distinguishing properties of minimality and expandability.