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The MDL Programming Language by S. W. Galley and Greg Pfister

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Hello, I have found a 1977 copy of "The MDL Programming Language - Primer and Manual" on the Dynamic Mocdling PDP-10 backup tapes. Here's a file listing: ``` 03 !FRONT...

1. In Acknowledgements, "Carl Hewit" should be "Carl Hewitt" (spelled correctly earlier in the Abstract). 2. In Notation, "ommitted" should be "omitted".

I wonder about the choice of markup language. I understand that this was inherited from Mark Trapp's original decision to use it but that doesn't mean it has to continue....

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Appendix 1, "A Look Inside", contains many ASCII-art diagrams showing the internal representation of MDL objects. How should we transcribe these? The diagrams mostly consist of table-like shapes for objects,...

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I really miss having the Name Index (appendix "8") as part of the doc. Currently, I keep the grotty PDF open on its Name Index. When I want to look...

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The link is not valid, it is now https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA070930 or direct to pdf file https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA070930.pdf