Conway: separable compiler design and coroutines

What changed

Presented a one-pass COBOL compiler design with separable coroutine modules and measured prototype components.

Scientific scope

The record is Conway's sole-author 1963 CACM paper. Its footnote states that the coroutine idea was concurrently developed by Conway and Joel Erdwinn; this target-work byline therefore does not become a sole-origin claim or absorb later coroutine and compiler designs.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Conway's sole-author 1963 CACM paper. Its footnote states that the coroutine idea was concurrently developed by Conway and Joel Erdwinn; this target-work byline therefore does not become a sole-origin claim or absorb later coroutine and compiler designs.

Contributors

• Melvin E. Conway · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• ACM page for Conway compiler paper
• Melvin Conway author-hosted compiler paper

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