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FAIL(ID:3306/fai001)

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Country: United States
Designed 1970
Published: 1974
Genus: Symbolic assemblers

Gorin, Stanford, 1972

Fast, one-pass assembler for PDP-10 and PDP-6 machine language.
Name presumably a pun on the better known SAIL

from DECUS tape:

"FAIL is a fast, one-pass assembler for the PDP-10 machine language. Although FAIL uses substantially more main memory than MACRO-10, it assembles typical programs in less than one-fifth the cpu time used by MACRO-10. FAIL permits an ALGOL-style block structure which provides a means of localizing the use of some symbols to certain parts of the program, such that the same symbol name can be used without conflict to mean things in different blocks."

World's first spell-checker was recoded in FAIL by Gorin

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References:
  • Wright, F. H. G., II and Gorin, Ralph E. (1974) Wright, F. H. G., II and Gorin, Ralph E. "FAIL" Report Number: CS-TR-74-407 Department of Computer Science Stanford University, April 1974 pdf Abstract
  • SAIL/FAIL, Version: 18, August 1976 Dan Swinehart, (1976) SAIL/FAIL, Version: 18, August 1976 Dan Swinehart, Robert Sproul, et al. Abstract Online at Trailing ege
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