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INPUT-OUTPUT LANGUAGE [2 records]

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Record 1 1988-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Fodor says that real computers characteristically use two different languages : an input-output language and a machine-language. In the former, computers communicate with their environment(particularly the human person who programs them). In the latter "they talk to themselves". The role of compilers being that of "mediating" between the two languages by providing a translation between them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 2 1985-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Programming Languages
CONT

... there is another language for functional decomposition and input/output specification : IORL(Input/Output Requirements Language). Although these do some useful specification checking, they cannot check detailed logic or specify the order and timing constraints needed in real-time systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Langages de programmation
OBS

langage de spécification entrée/sortie.

Spanish

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