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It's the same idea, yes. Although, the specification of UNCOL is... a little odd. It has a bunch of cells (referenced by address); instructions refer to a previ
by thechao 9y ago
It's the same idea, yes. Although, the specification of UNCOL is... a little odd. It has a bunch of cells (referenced by address); instructions refer to a previous instruction, and an address for their arguments---so like a stack machine, but the second argument is always a pointer. Or ... some such thing. The one paper I read spends 80% of its effort defining the representation of text.
- msla 9y ago> The one paper I read spends 80% of its effort defining the representation of text. These days, an equivalent effort would incorporate Unicode and UTF-8 by reference, which together amount to much more verbiage, especially Unicode. Back then, text standards weren't quite so mature, and it's possible nothing existing at the time really solved their problem.