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最初のコンパイラ:A-0システム

1952
  • Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper working on the A-0 System compiler in a 1950s office.

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グレース・ホッパーが1952年に考案したA-0システムは、広く最初の コンパイラ. It translated a sequence of subroutines and arguments, specified by a mathematical notation, into machine code. This was a foundational step in moving from low-level assembly programming to higher-level, more abstract programming languages, automating the tedious process of manual code translation. Early programming languages research, such as the A-0 System, 導かれた to the high-level languages used today.

The A-0 System, developed for the UNIVAC I computer, functioned more like a modern linker or loader than a full コンパイラ as we understand it today. Its primary innovation was automation. Before A-0, programmers had to manually look up the addresses of subroutines from a library and patch them into their main program. This was a slow and highly error-prone process. Hopper’s system automated this by assigning a numeric code to each subroutine in a magnetic tape library.

The programmer would write a program as a sequence of these numeric codes and their arguments. The A-0 System would then read this sequence, look up the corresponding subroutines on the tape, and copy them to the correct locations in memory to form a complete, executable program. While it did not parse complex algebraic expressions or manage control flow structures like a modern compiler, it was the first piece of software that took a high-level specification and automatically generated a low-level executable. This ‘compilation’ of routines was a revolutionary concept that directly led to the development of more sophisticated languages and compilers, including Hopper’s own FLOW-MATIC, which in turn heavily influenced COBOL.

UNESCO Nomenclature: 1203
コンピュータサイエンス

タイプ

ソフトウェア/アルゴリズム

混乱

革命的

使用法

廃止

前駆物質

  • プログラム内蔵型コンピュータの概念(フォン・ノイマン型アーキテクチャ)
  • サブルーチンとライブラリの開発
  • アセンブリ言語は、機械語よりも一歩進んだ言語である。
  • 問題解決のための数学的表記法

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関連: グレース・ホッパー、A-0 システム、最初のコンパイラ、コンパイル、高水準言語、自動化、プログラミングの歴史、UNIVAC i、フローマティック、COBOL。

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