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ALTRAN

ALTRAN (Algebraic Translator) is a programming language for the formal manipulation of rational functions of several variables with integer coefficients. It was developed at Bell Labs in 1960s. ALTRAN is a FORTRAN version of ALPAK rational algebra package, and “can be thought of as a variant of FORTRAN with the addition of an extra declaration, the…

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Designed by
W. Stanley Brown
Developer
Bell Telephone Laboratories
First appeared
1965

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related to References · 27
ALTRAN → ACM, ACM SIGSAM Bulletin, ALTRAN User's Manual, April, Bell Laboratories, Brown, Feldman, FORMAL DESCRIPTION OF ALTRAN, Hall, Issue, January, Johnson, Mansour Farah, May, Murray Hill, November, Proceedings, SIGSAM, Stuart, Symbolic
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ALTRAN → ALPAK, An, Andrew, Brown, Dennis, Douglas McIlroy, Feldman, FORTRAN, Hall, However, I/O, IBM, Johnson, Ritchie, Stanley Brown, Stephen, Stuart, The, These, This
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ALTRAN → W. Stanley Brown
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ALTRAN → Bell Telephone Laboratories
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ALTRAN → 1965
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ALTRAN → FORTRAN version of ALPAK rational algebra package

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fortran translator brown rational bell language feldman algebraic manipulation developed alpak called subroutines laboratories hall johnson 12 acm formal 1960s

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