Programming Decision Tables in FORTRAN, COBOL or ALGOL A simple broad-based approach for programming decision tables in FORTRAN or COBOL is developed and presented. With inputs in standard form, as defined in the paper, the programming of any decision table can be done with one or two FORTRAN statements, or with two COBOL statements, if the COMPUTE verb is available in the COBOL processor. It is shown that the method is applicable even when there are more than two mutually exclusive states of one, two or more table conditions. It is further shown that multi-state conditions in decision tables can often simplify the programming. The method outlined has the further advantage that all possible combinations of conditions are considered. It is shown that the suggested procedure is easily implemented in ALGOL. CACM January, 1966 Veinott, C. G. CA660107 JB March 3, 1978 4:08 PM 1354 4 1488 1354 4 1488 1488 4 1488 1488 4 1488 1994 4 1488 2053 4 1488 2053 4 1488 2220 4 1488 2220 4 1488 2273 4 1488 2273 4 1488 2726 4 1488 2856 4 1488 1237 5 1488 1327 5 1488 1488 5 1488 1488 5 1488 1488 5 1488 1548 5 1488 2726 5 1488 1172 6 1488 1327 6 1488 1354 6 1488 1488 6 1488 1488 6 1488 1489 6 1488 1489 6 1488 1548 6 1488 2220 6 1488 2221 6 1488 2263 6 1488