Preliminary Design of the

Programming Language Forsythe

John C. Reynolds1

Carnegie Mellon University
June 21, 1988
CMU-CS-88-159

Abstract

This is a preliminary description of the programming language Forsythe, which is a descendent of Algol 60 intended to be as uniform and general as possible, while retaining the basic character of its progenitor.

1Research supported by NSF Grant CCR-8620191. A portion of the research was also sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), ARPA Order No. 4976, monitored by the Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of any agency of the US Government.