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A high-level programming and command language

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Christopher W. Fraser,

David R. HansonAuthors Info & Claims

SIGPLAN '83: Proceedings of the 1983 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Programming language issues in software systems

Pages 212 - 219

https://doi.org/10.1145/800226.806868

Published: 01 June 1983 Publication History

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Unifying programming and command languages is a promising idea that has yet to be thoroughly exploited. Most attempts at such unification have used Lisp or traditional languages, such as Pascal. This paper describes the command and programming language EZ, which attempts to unify command and programming languages by using high-level string-processing concepts, such as those in SNOBOL4 and Icon. EZ has particularly simple data abstractions that attempt to bridge the gap between the data abstractions of command languages and those of programming languages. This is accomplished by type fusion, which pushes the differences between some classes of types, such as strings and text files, out of the language and into the implementation. The language, its use, and its implementation are described.

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A high-level programming and command language
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Command and control languages
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Very high level languages

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SIGPLAN '83: Proceedings of the 1983 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Programming language issues in software systems

June 1983

230 pages

ISBN:0897911083

DOI:10.1145/800226

ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 18, Issue 6
June 1983
219 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/872728
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