From: Aaron Sloman see below for email address
Subject: HTML version of the Pop-11 Primer
Date:
Message-ID: <69aor3$q1p$1@usenet.bham.ac.uk>
As requested by some recipients of my previous posting about the Pop-11
primer, I have used latex2html to convert the latex to html and put the
result in
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer/START.html
Pop-11 is an incrementally compiled language with most of the features
of Common Lisp but a more familiar (Pascal like) syntax. It also uses an
open stack for procedure arguments and results (like Forth). The primer
is intended for readers with some programming experience, but does not
give full information about the language.
As previously announced the following additional versions of the
Pop11 Primer are avilable in Birminhgam Poplog FTP directory
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/teach/primer 602004 bytes
Directly browsable plain text
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer.gz 195386 bytes
Compressed version of the above
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer.ps.gz 412327 bytes
compressed postscript file. Prints as 298 pages of A4
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer2.ps.gz 418515 bytes
compressed postscript file. Prints two pages per A4 sheet.
149 pages.
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer.tex.gz 193925 bytes
compressed latex source for the postscript version. Edit if
you want something that prints on US paper.
You will also need this file:
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/popmodel.eps 17482 bytes
eps file produced by TGIF used for the diagram of the model.
The main change since the 1996 version of the Primer is that there a new
section describing a "minimal model" of the Pop-11 virtual machine, with
a diagram showing the dictionary, the heap, the procedure call stack,
the user stack and input/output channels (e.g. for things like readline
and printing).
For more information see
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/README
The RCLIB package has been extended since I last posted an announcement.
The news file is
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/rclib/help/rclib_news
Aaron
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School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman at cs.bham.ac . uk
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