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GPM(ID:225/gpm001)

General Purpose Macro-generator 

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Country: United Kingdom
Designed 1965
Published: 1965
Genus: Macros
Sammet category: String and List Processing

General Purpose Macro-generator.
A macrogenerator which provides significant string handling facilities. (Sammett 1966)
Early text-processing language similar to TRAC, implemented on Atlas 2.


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Related languages
  GPM→KUL GPM Implementation of
  GPM→ML/I Influence
  GPM→SELP Extension of
  GPM→SIGMA Influence
References:

1965

  • Strachey, C (1965) Strachey, C "A General Purpose Macrogenerator" pp225-241 Abstract Extract: Features
          in (1965) The Computer Journal 8(3) October 1965

1968

  • Sammet, Jean E. (1968) Sammet, Jean E. "Revised Annotated Descriptor Based Bibliography for the Use of Computers for Non-Numerical Mathematics"
          in Bobrow, D. G. (ed) (1968) Bobrow, D. G. (ed) "Symbol Manipulation Languages and Techniques", Proceedings of the IFIP Working Conference on Symbol Manipulation Languages. North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1968

1969

1970

  • Frits Van Der Wateren (1970) Frits Van Der Wateren "A General Purpose Macrogenerator. An Implementation For The M6800, After An Article In The Computer Journal Vol. 8 Page 225 By C.Strachey." Physical Laboratory, Dept. E.N.T. Wilhelmina Hospital. Amsterdam The Netherlands.