A Descriptive Language for Symbol Manipulation

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A Descriptive Language for Symbol Manipulation

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Volume 8 , Issue 4 (October 1961) table of contents

Pages: 579 - 584

Year of Publication: 1961

ISSN:0004-5411

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Robert W. Floyd

Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	2	K. Samelson , F. L. Bauer, Sequential formula translation, Communications of the ACM, v.3 n.2, p.76-83, Feb. 1960 [doi>10.1145/366959.366968]

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