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The System Language for Project SUE

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B. L. Clark,

J. J. HorningAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 6, Issue 9

Pages 79 - 88

https://doi.org/10.1145/942596.807062

Published: 01 October 1971 Publication History

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Project SUE is writing a complete operating system for the IBM System/360 family of computers in a language designed especially for that purpose. The System Language was designed from the following premises: (a) it must facilitate nicely structured programs and data; (b) it must be readable; (c) it must actively assist in the detection and isolation of errors; (d) it must be compilable into efficient code; (e) it must allow the programmer precise control over the emission of instructions and allocation of storage; (f) it must be easily modifiable; (g) it must have an efficient compiler; and (h) it must be easily implementable. Although the resulting language is very much a product of the Project SUE environment, some of its features may be of more general interest.

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The System Language for Project SUE
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Process management
        Multiprocessing / multiprogramming / multitasking

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 6, Issue 9

October 1971

120 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/942596

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Proceedings of the SIGPLAN symposium on Languages for system implementation
October 1971
122 pages
ISBN:9781450378871
DOI:10.1145/800234
Chairman:
Maurice H. Halstead

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Association for Computing Machinery

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