STRESS(ID:211/str013)STRuctual Engineering Systems Solverfor STRuctural Engineering Systems Solver. Structural analysis problems in Civil Engineering, developed by Felves at MIT. Superceded by STRUDL. Places Related languages
References: in [ACM/IEEE] Proceedings of the SHARE Design Automation Project Annual ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference 1965 view details This edition is a major revision and extension of the first, to incorporate the changes to the (CTSS) Compatible Time-Sharing System during the past two years. The manual itself is organized into sections for easy referencing and to facilitate future expansion and modification. The manual is maintained on-line within the system in an attempt to keep all system documcutation continuously up to date. A system user can keep his manual updated by periodically inspecting a table of contents and requesting an on-line printout of those sections which have been revised since he last updated his copy. Some features of the CTSS which are detailed in this edition are: password logic, introduction of more elaborate accounting features, inter-console message, public files, and macrocommands. A new file system was implemented to remove some previous weaknesses and to test a prototype of the file system which is proposed for the next timesharing system. Available languagcs and subsystems include AED (modified ALGOL), BEFAP, COGO-90, COMIT, DYNAMO, ESL DisplaySystem, LAPC, GPSS, MAD, T\IADTHN, SNOBOL, STRESS, and BLOW (BLODI Diagram Compiler). The manual presents a brief description of general subroutines and a description of commands for the creation, editing, compression, printing, and housekeeping of files, program execution and debugging. in [ACM/IEEE] Proceedings of the SHARE Design Automation Project Annual ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference 1965 view details in Sass, M. and W. Wilkinson, eds. Computer Augmentation of Human Reasoning Spartan Books, Washington, D.C., 1965 view details in Sass, M. and W. Wilkinson, eds. Computer Augmentation of Human Reasoning Spartan Books, Washington, D.C., 1965 view details in Sass, M. and W. Wilkinson, eds. Computer Augmentation of Human Reasoning Spartan Books, Washington, D.C., 1965 view details in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Man-Machine Communication IBM White Plains 1966 view details in ACM Computing Reviews 7(05) September-October 1966 view details in Computers & Automation 16(6) June 1967 view details in Computers & Automation 16(6) June 1967 view details STRESS (STRuctural Engineering Systems Solver) is designed for use by engineers in analyzing framed structures. Work was started in the fall of 1962 at M.I.T. under the direction of Visiting Professor S. J. Fenyes of the University of Illinois. STRESS has been implemented on at least the following computers: IBM 7090/7094; UNIVAC 1107; CDC 1604, 3400, and 3600; Burroughs 5500; under CTSS (see Crisman [ZR65]); and a subset on the IBM 162B and 1130. The data in STRESS is more complicated than in COGO since COGO requires only geometric information, whereas stress also requires topological and mechanical properties and a great deal more other information. [...] STRESS has been replaced and expanded by a system called STRUDL, an application subsystem of ICES. in Computers & Automation 16(6) June 1967 view details [321 programming languages with indication of the computer manufacturers, on whose machinery the appropriate languages are used to know. Register of the 74 computer companies; Sequence of the programming languages after the number of manufacturing firms, on whose plants the language is implemented; Sequence of the manufacturing firms after the number of used programming languages.] in Computers & Automation 16(6) June 1967 view details in Computers & Automation 21(6B), 30 Aug 1972 view details in ACM Computing Reviews 15(04) April 1974 view details The exact number of all the programming languages still in use, and those which are no longer used, is unknown. Zemanek calls the abundance of programming languages and their many dialects a "language Babel". When a new programming language is developed, only its name is known at first and it takes a while before publications about it appear. For some languages, the only relevant literature stays inside the individual companies; some are reported on in papers and magazines; and only a few, such as ALGOL, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, and PL/1, become known to a wider public through various text- and handbooks. The situation surrounding the application of these languages in many computer centers is a similar one. There are differing opinions on the concept "programming languages". What is called a programming language by some may be termed a program, a processor, or a generator by others. Since there are no sharp borderlines in the field of programming languages, works were considered here which deal with machine languages, assemblers, autocoders, syntax and compilers, processors and generators, as well as with general higher programming languages. The bibliography contains some 2,700 titles of books, magazines and essays for around 300 programming languages. However, as shown by the "Overview of Existing Programming Languages", there are more than 300 such languages. The "Overview" lists a total of 676 programming languages, but this is certainly incomplete. One author ' has already announced the "next 700 programming languages"; it is to be hoped the many users may be spared such a great variety for reasons of compatibility. The graphic representations (illustrations 1 & 2) show the development and proportion of the most widely-used programming languages, as measured by the number of publications listed here and by the number of computer manufacturers and software firms who have implemented the language in question. The illustrations show FORTRAN to be in the lead at the present time. PL/1 is advancing rapidly, although PL/1 compilers are not yet seen very often outside of IBM. Some experts believe PL/1 will replace even the widely-used languages such as FORTRAN, COBOL, and ALGOL.4) If this does occur, it will surely take some time - as shown by the chronological diagram (illustration 2) . It would be desirable from the user's point of view to reduce this language confusion down to the most advantageous languages. Those languages still maintained should incorporate the special facets and advantages of the otherwise superfluous languages. Obviously such demands are not in the interests of computer production firms, especially when one considers that a FORTRAN program can be executed on nearly all third-generation computers. The titles in this bibliography are organized alphabetically according to programming language, and within a language chronologically and again alphabetically within a given year. Preceding the first programming language in the alphabet, literature is listed on several languages, as are general papers on programming languages and on the theory of formal languages (AAA). As far as possible, the most of titles are based on autopsy. However, the bibliographical description of sone titles will not satisfy bibliography-documentation demands, since they are based on inaccurate information in various sources. Translation titles whose original titles could not be found through bibliographical research were not included. ' In view of the fact that nany libraries do not have the quoted papers, all magazine essays should have been listed with the volume, the year, issue number and the complete number of pages (e.g. pp. 721-783), so that interlibrary loans could take place with fast reader service. Unfortunately, these data were not always found. It is hoped that this bibliography will help the electronic data processing expert, and those who wish to select the appropriate programming language from the many available, to find a way through the language Babel. We wish to offer special thanks to Mr. Klaus G. Saur and the staff of Verlag Dokumentation for their publishing work. Graz / Austria, May, 1973 in ACM Computing Reviews 15(04) April 1974 view details in SIGPLAN Notices 13(11) Nov 1978 view details |