CS-4 (programming language)
| Designed by | Intermetrics, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Developer | Intermetrics |
| First appeared | 26 December 1973[2] |
| Typing discipline | unknown |
| Influenced by | |
| unknown | |
| Influenced | |
| Praxis[3] | |
CS-4[1] is a programming language and an operating system interface. It was developed in the early 1970s at Intermetrics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The first published manual was released in December 1973, entitled "CS-4 Language Reference Manual and Operating System Interface".[1] The document had three parts: CS-4 Base Language Capabilities; CS-4 Operating System Interface; and Overview of Full CS-4 Capabilities.
History
[edit]Little is known about the CS-4 language, but it was developed for the United States Navy in the 1970s, and was an ongoing research project, which was continuing the study of extensibility and abstraction techniques to develop a requirement of the language to be simple and compact.[4] The language was first documented in 1973 by Miller et al.,[4] and was revised in 1975 to allow "data abstractions and more powerful extension facilities".[4]
Descendants
[edit]- Praxis explicitly refers to CS-4 as a predecessor language.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Benjamin M. Brosgol; Timothy A.; James L. Felty; Joel R. Lexier; Gary M. Palter. DTIC Report Entry. INTERMETRICS INC. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016.
- ^ Library of Congress. Copyright Office; Copyright Office (1976). Catalog of Copyright Entries. Library of Congress.
- ^ a b Greenwood, J.R.; Evans, A. Jr.; Morgan, C.R.; Zarnstorff, M.C. (1980). An introduction to Praxis. doi:10.2172/6662537. S2CID 56584406.
- ^ a b c Timothy A. Dreisbach; James L. Felty; Ira Greenberg. Higher-order Language Technology Evaluation (PDF). Intermetrics Inc. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2016.