An interpreter for Iverson notation
Philip S. Abrams · 1966
Kenneth E. Iverson''s book, A Programming Language [New York: Wiley, 1962], presented a highly elegant for description and analysis of algorithms. Although not widely acclaimed at first, notation (referred to as the language in this report) is coming to be recognized as an important tool by computer scientists and programmers. The current report contains an up-to-date definition of a subset of language, based on recent work by Iverson and his colleagues. Chapter III describes an interpreter for language, written jointly by author and Lawrence M. Breed of IBM. The remainder of paper consists of critiques of implementation and language, with suggestions for improvement. This report was originally submitted in fulfillment of a Computer Science 239 project supervised by Professor Niklaus Wirth, Stanford University, May 30, 1966.