The structure of directly executed languages: a new theory of interpretive system design
Lee W. Hoevel, Michael J. Flynn · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1977
This paper concerns two important issues in the design of optimal languages for direct execution in an interpretive system: binding the operand identifiers in an executable instruction unit to the arguments of the routine implementing the operator defined by that instruction; and binding operand identifiers to execution variables. These issues are central to the performance of a system, both in space and time.