Abstract
Computers have long been in general use for solving numerical problems and pioneering interest has now switched to their use for non-numerical work, that is, for manipulating symbols. Examples are compiling, studies in artificial intelligence, layout problems, etc. List-processing was a breakthrough in symbol manipulation since it provided a flexible way of organizing the computer memory. The paper explains in a tutorial manner what goes on in the computer memory when list-processing operations are performed, and takes as an example the formal differentiation of an algebraic expression written in Polish notation.
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Wilkes, M. V. (1964). Lists and why they are useful. In Proceedings of the 1964 19th ACM National Conference, ACM 1964 (pp. F1-1-F1-5). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/7.4.278
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