This paper reports on the implementation of a powerful data manipulation language (DML) of a data base system for minicomputers. The technique of language preprocessing is employed:
The preprocessor translates each DML-statement into an internal form; ...
A preprocessor is a language processor that accepts, as input, statements written in one computer language and writes to an output file statements that are acceptable to a similar but less complete language. Suppose, for example, that we have available ...
Preprocessors are components of a software development environment that can increase productivity by providing semantic capabilities for expressing certain source language statement s concisely and directly which would otherwise be expressed indirectly ...
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