Concepts Of Programming Languages
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Author: Sebesta, Robert W.
Publisher: Pearson,
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Slowness of interpretation of
Computers available in early 1950's were far less usable as compared to the systems of today because they were slow, expensive, have very smaller memories and lacked of supporting software.
None of the systems of that era had hardware support for doing operations on floating point values.
So, all the floating point operations had to be simulated using some kind of software. This was a much time consuming process...
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