SEP(ID:5829/rot002)

for Survey and Experiments Program

Rothamsted autocode revised of the Extended Mercury Autocode and implemented on the Orion computer
Related languages
EMA => SEP   Based on
Rothamsted autocode => SEP   Evolution of
SEP => Anderson statistical language   Written using
References:
  • Anderson, AJB "A note on the construction of a general survey program in Extended Mercury Autocode" pp312-314 view details Abstract: The paper describes a general program for the analysis of surveys. The program was written in Extended Mercury Autocode for the Rothamsted Orion and is similar to that written earlier for the Elliott 401, but the derived variate instructions are written separately for each survey in EMA by the user. The steering section is also written in EMA, and complicated cycling can therefore be introduced without difficulty. The program provides for the use of magnetic tape for dumps and storage of tables. External link: Online copy
          in The Computer Journal 8(4) 1965 view details
  • Baecker, H. D. review of Anderson 1965 view details Abstract: Insofar as the work described is an attempt to implement a problem language in a common procedure language it must be welcomed. However, versions of the procedure language incorporating the facilities required for this implementation are not widely available, and are likely to be less widely available in the future.

    The actual facilities provided for the user are meager in the extreme. No facilities are mentioned for:

    1) checking the internal consistency of the records processed;

    2) processing non-numeric variates;

    3) deriving regroupings of variates;

    4) deriving weighting factors from the composition of the current sample to apply to selected tabulations.

    All these have been in production use since mid-1961 with the Opal compiler for the AUTOSTAT language for the IBM 7090.
          in ACM Computing Reviews 7(05) September-October 1966 view details
  • J. C. Gower; H. R. Simpson; A. H. Martin "Statistical Programming Language" Applied Statistics, 16(2) (1967), pp. 89-99 view details
          in ACM Computing Reviews 7(05) September-October 1966 view details