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SCATRAN(ID:3198/sca013)

Ohio SU Algol

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Country: United States
Designed 1962
Genus: True ALGOL60s
Sammet category: Numerical Scientific

Algol 60 descendant for numerical computation

Dr. Roy F. Reeves, Numerical Computation Laboratory, Ohio SU, 1962 for IBM 7094

References:

Stock (1971) Stock, Karl F. "A listing of some programming languages and their users" in RZ-Informationen. Graz: Rechenzentrum Graz 1971 213 Abstract

Stock and Stock (1973) Stock, Marylene and Stock, Karl F. "Bibliography of Programming Languages: Books, User Manuals and Articles from PLANKALKUL to PL/I" Verlag Dokumentation, Pullach/Munchen 1973 523 Abstract
Resources

Lectures notes by Robert Mathis at Ohio State SCATRAN 1

Dr. Roy F. Reeves, Numerical Computation Laboratory,Ohio SU, 1962 for IBM 7094

Derivation from ALGOL.

SCATRAN had a number of features that didn’t exist in other languages until much later.

In SCATRAN, out parameters of subprograms indicated

     Subprogram (out) := SUB (in)

     call SUB (this) := (that)

SCATRAN 2

Assignment operator :=(to differentiate from mathematical equality)

Special end-of-statement character ^
(written like rotated, sideways T)

Function names ended with . (to distinguish them from arrays)

Special operators .P. (exponentiation) and.ABS. .L. .NOT. .GE.

SCATRAN 3

TRANSFER TO (V) ^
(where V might be a calculable label expression)

Three-way transfers based on value of arithmetic expression

PROVIDED (A .NE. B),

     TRANSFER TO (LABEL(1)) ^

Compound conditional (combination of nested if's and case/switch)

DO THROUGH (V), U := X, Y, PROVIDED (B) ^

SCATRAN 4

Standard input and output formats (for tabular data) otherwise similar to FORTRAN

Formula:

     single statement producing single output value
     FORMULA(TYPE) := NAME.(U, V) := EXPR  ^

Subroutine / Function

     SUBROUTINE(A, B, C) := NAME.(X, Y, Z) ^

     CALL SUBROUTINE(R, E, S, U, L, T) :=
          THING.(I, N, P, U, T) ^

EXTERNAL (V) ^

NORMAL EXIT  ^

Symbolic binary as an editable condensed form

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