home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!tekbspa!tekbspa!esh
- From: esh@boron.tekbspa.com (Edward S. Hirgelt)
- Subject: Re: Origin of "dope vector"
- In-Reply-To: rro@cs.ColoState.EDU's message of 19 Aug 92 20:56:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <ESH.92Aug20140859@boron.tekbspa.com>
- Sender: news@tss.com (USENET Network News)
- Organization: Direct Interfaces Corporation @ Teknekron
- References: <Aug19.205611.51383@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:08:59 GMT
- Lines: 25
-
-
- On 19 Aug 92 20:56:11 GMT,
- rro@cs.ColoState.EDU (Rod Oldehoeft) said:
-
- Rod> The oldest reference I
- Rod> have for this particular term is Gries' 1971 book, where
- Rod> the reference is:
-
- Rod> ... "For arrays this template is called a dope vector or
- Rod> information vector. ...
-
- I'm not sure of the exact first use, but I first encountered ``dope
- vector'' in reading the PL/I reference manuals for the OS 360 in late
- 1969. Gries was at that time pretty IBM oriented so his use may have
- derived from the same PL/I documentation. PL/I had already been around
- for a while in 1969 so the terminology is prabably older.
-
- Good luck in your search,
- Ed
-
-
- --
- Ed Hirgelt esh@tss.com
- Direct Interfaces Corporation
- San Jose, Ca.
-