Burroughs Algorithmic Compiler(ID:2796/bur002)

Autocoder for Burroughs 205 

Autocoder for Burroughs 205
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  • An Introduction to Coding the Burroughs 220, Burroughs Corporation, December, 1958. view details
  • Burroughs Algebraic Compiler for the 205. Burroughs Corporation publication no. 205-21003-D (Detroit, Michigan, October 1961), 30 pp. view details
  • Lesser, Richard C. "Richard C. Lesser's Recollections: The Cornell Computing Center, the Early Years, 1953 to 1964," view details Extract: Creation of CORC
    The next programming advance at Cornell came in the early 1960's, when Professors Richard Conway and William Maxwell of the Department of Industrial Engineering, and Robert J. Walker of the Department of Mathematics wrote an interpretive compiler called CORC, the Cornell Compiler, similar to the widely used BASIC, which was being developed at Dartmouth. Whereas BASIC had a highly structured, formal syntax, CORC was programmed in English statements and was easy to learn and use. Initially written for the 220, and later for the Control Data1604, it increased student usage greatly. Programs submitted before 5 o'clock would be compiled or run during the night, and results made available to the student the next morning. By 1963, approximately 1,000 students were using the computers for coursework. In 1962, the College of Engineering incorporated computer programming as part of the third semester of calculus, and, in the academic year, 1963-1964, 14 credit courses related to computing were offered on campus. Extract: BAC
    Cornell was one of the founders of the original Burroughs User Group, the Cooperating Users' Exchange (CUE), of which Robert Gordon of Stanford was the first president, and I was the second. This group had large representation among Universities and military research facilities and, through the urging of this group, the next breakthrough in software was achieved. Burroughs Corporation, in early 1961 published and distributed the Burroughs Algebraic Compiler, " a representation of ALGOL for the Burroughs 220 Data-Processing System". As had board wiring and machine language programming, assemblers now dwindled in importance. We had been using the assembler CAP (Cornell Assembly Program), written in 1959/60 for the Computing Center by an undergraduate student, David J. Waks. With the availability of the CAP assembler and the BAC compiler, programming the 220 was greatly facilitated.


          in Oral Histories - Cornell Computing and Information 2002 view details