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Presents several letters to the editor about the computing machinery. Dissatisfaction with the quality and nature of the average technical paper presented at the Joint Computer Conferences; Comment on the article "One-Pass Compilation of Arithmetic Expressions for a Parallel Processor," by Harold S. Stone; Use of a coordinate system or characteristic indices for the progress of an algorithm.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles that were published in the previous issues of the journal "Communications of the ACM." "Implementing Phrase-Structure Productions in PL/I," which focused on a PL/I program for-randomly generating terminal strings of a BNF language; Computation that was done in FORTRAN on CDC 6400 in single precision; "On Compiling Algorithms for Arithmetic Expressions,"which focused on an algorithm on the compilation of arithmetic expressions; Objections to the choice of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia as the site for International Federation for Information Processing Congress 1971.