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Communications of the ACM Volume 11 Issue 3March 1968 pp 147–148https://doi.org/10.1145/362929.362947

Online:01 March 1968Publication History

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1 WIRTH, NIKLAUS, AND HOARE, C. A. R. A contribution to the development of ALGOL. Comm. ACM 9 (June 1966), 413-432. Google ScholarDigital Library
2 B~HM CORRADO, AND JACOPINI, GUISEPPE. Flow diagrams, Turing machines and languages with only two formation rules, Comm. ACM 9 (May 1966), 366-371. Google ScholarDigital Library

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Communications of the ACM Volume 11, Issue 3
March 1968
67 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/362929
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Gerard Salton
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
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