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Hopper described a compiling routine that selected catalogued subroutines, adjusted them and assembled a UNIVAC program. The paper separates this type-A construction from interpretive use and discusses further programming ambitions. Reusing a library changes programming from repeatedly writing routine operations to specifying and assembling them. The paper documents that method; implementation dates, versions and team rosters for A-0 and successors remain separate historical questions.
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The inspected original pp.243–245 support subroutine assembly, not completion of every proposed symbolic system. This is not a claim that the tool had all properties of a modern compiler or that Hopper alone built the whole UNIVAC environment.
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Grace Murray Hopper
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Hopper: subroutine assembly in The Education of a Computer
Hopper described a compiling routine that selected catalogued subroutines, adjusted them and assembled a UNIVAC program. The paper separates this type-A construction from interpretive use and discusses further programming ambitions.
Reusing a library changes programming from repeatedly writing routine operations to specifying and assembling them. The paper documents that method; implementation dates, versions and team rosters for A-0 and successors remain separate historical questions.
Scientific scope
The inspected original pp.243–245 support subroutine assembly, not completion of every proposed symbolic system. This is not a claim that the tool had all properties of a modern compiler or that Hopper alone built the whole UNIVAC environment.
People and systems
Grace Murray Hopper