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Automatic generation of aggregate operators in ALGOL 68
Author(s) -
Middleton Tony
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380090808
Subject(s) - operand , computer science , operator (biology) , preprocessor , aggregate (composite) , variation (astronomy) , curse of dimensionality , programming language , arithmetic , mathematics , artificial intelligence , operating system , biochemistry , chemistry , materials science , physics , repressor , transcription factor , astrophysics , composite material , gene
It is quite often necessary to write several variations of an ALGOL 68 operator to allow the dimensionality of the operands to vary from one variation to another. A system has been written which will automatically generate such variations. The system is a preprocessor written in SNOBOL.