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| align="right" | — Herbert J. Bernstein, "Idols of Modern Science", [HJB, 38]
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In this Subsection, I discuss the ''mechanics'' of parsing the cactus language into the corresponding class of computational data structures. This provides each sentence of the language with a translation into a computational form that articulates its syntactic structure and prepares it for automated modes of processing and evaluation. For this purpose, it is necessary to describe the target data structures at a fairly high level of abstraction only, ignoring the details of address pointers and record structures and leaving the more operational aspects of implementation to the imagination of prospective programmers. In this way, I can put off to another stage of elaboration and refinement the description of the program that constructs these pointers and operates on these graph-theoretic data structures.
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The structure of a "painted cactus", insofar as it presents itself
The structure of a "painted cactus", insofar as it presents itself
to the visual imagination, can be described as follows. The overall
to the visual imagination, can be described as follows. The overall