Data Descriptors are a way to represent all target data inside a compiler.

Normalization

Data Descriptors provide one form of normalization. Data Descriptors led to simplification of compiler technologies which led to higher levels of abstraction.

The takeaway is not necessarily how it was done but that it was done.

DD’s showed that normalization encourages higher level thinking.

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Data Descriptors paper

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