Current problems in automatic programming
Ascher Opler · 1961
The proliferation of the number of applications to be programmed and the number of types of computers available has created a significant and challenging problem. This survey will consider some of the more promising suggestions for enabling automatic programming to keep pace with other developments in the field. Among the prospects are: standardization of source languages, development of a standard universal intermediate language, design of computers to operate directly in source language, automatic translation of programs between computers, the automatic construction of compilers and the standardization and construction of common compiler modules.