COMTRAN Reconstruction

F28-8043 · June 1960

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Contents

Chapter 1: General Description of the Commercial Translator System

  • Introduction and Plan of the Manual — 1
  • Designing Data Processing Programs — 1
  • What Is a Data Processing System? — 1
    • Communication with a Data Processing Machine — 2
  • The Commercial Translator System — 3
  • Examples—1, 2, 3 — 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    • Construction of the Commercial Translator Language — 7
    • Examples 4, 5 — 8, 9, 10
  • Outline of Manual — 10

Chapter 2: The Structure of the Language

  • Underlying Principles — 11
  • Character Set — 12
  • Verbs — 12
    • Operators — 13
  • Names — 13
    • Kinds of Names — 13
      • Data-Names — 13
      • Procedure-Names — 14
      • Condition-Names — 14
    • Formation of Names — 15
    • Compound Names — 15
    • Placing Names in the Program — 16
  • Constants — 17
    • Literals — 18
    • Named Constants — 19
    • Figurative Constants — 19
  • Expressions — 20
    • Arithmetic Expressions — 20
    • Conditional Expressions — 21
      • Relations — 21
      • Condition-Names — 22
      • AND, OR, and NOT — 23
    • Truth Functions — 24
  • Clauses — 24
    • Imperative Clauses — 25
    • Conditional Clauses — 25
  • Sentences — 25
  • Sections — 26
  • Divisions — 26
  • Punctuation and Spacing — 27
  • Lists, Tables, and Subscripts — 28
  • Functions — 32
    • Use of Functions in Procedure Statement — 34

Chapter 3: Procedure Description

  • Introduction — 35
    • Verbs — 35
    • Commands — 35
    • Format of Procedure Statements — 37