The origin of WAM is in the PhD thesis of David H. D. Warren (1977). The basic architecture
is Von Neumann-like, though there is a strong dependence on a stack. A variety of procedure call
instructions directly implement the sequencing philosophy assumed by the PROLOG inference
engine as it cycles through the goal lists and the program clauses. Other instructions provide a wide
variety of Unification tests.
8.8 Grammar and IR Generation for miniC
In Chapter 12, we plan to present a complete development of a compiler for a stripped down C-like
language, miniC. Here we present, as examples of Intermediate Representation ...
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