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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Origin of "dope vector"
- Message-ID: <7103@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 11:34:02 GMT
- References: <Aug19.205611.51383@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <ESH.92Aug20140859@boron.tekbspa.com>
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- In article <ESH.92Aug20140859@boron.tekbspa.com> esh@boron.tekbspa.com (Edward S. Hirgelt) writes:
- > 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:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- Certainly. In front of me I have K. Sattley and P. Z. Ingerman, The
- Allocation of Storage for Arrays in Algol-60, University of Pennsylvania
- Report, AFOSR-TN-60-1320, November 1960. On page 3 they say:
- Stored along with the elements of an array will be a "dope vector"
- containing the information necessary to reference the array (the
- parameters of the storage-mapping function).
- But I do not know whether *that* is the first use.
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