Man-to-machine communication and automatic code translation
Anatol W. Holt, W. J. Turanski · 1960
The ACT system is a programmed adjunct to a general purpose computing machine (currently considered for the MOBIDIC) whose purpose is to facilitate the initial encoding and subsequent application of specific "code-to-code translation" procedures. The phrase "code-to-code translation" is primarily meant to cover the conversion of problem oriented pseudo-codes into machine code equivalents. The ACT system provides for the "housing" of many distinct translation procedures - carrying algebraic, data-processing, simulation languages, etc., into any of a variety of computer codes - within the bounds of a single controlling system.