Adding the date would be relevant - the linked document is from 1961!
Concepts like the ones described in the "Extended Machine Operations" and "Pseudo-operations" sections (start around page 16) are a lot more impressive in that light; designing a system for expressiveness and programmer convenience over pure utility was still a very new idea.
Concepts like the ones described in the "Extended Machine Operations" and "Pseudo-operations" sections (start around page 16) are a lot more impressive in that light; designing a system for expressiveness and programmer convenience over pure utility was still a very new idea.