Analogy To Bytecode / Virtual Machine Instruction Set
A multi-dimensional control table has some conceptual similarities to bytecode operating on a virtual machine, in that a platform dependent "interpreter" program is usually required to perform the actual execution (that is largely conditionally determined by the tables content). There are also some conceptual similarities to the recent Common Intermediate Language (CIL) in the aim of creating a common intermediate 'instruction set' that is independent of platform (but unlike CIL, no pretentions to be used as a common resource for other languages). P-code can also be considered a similar but earlier implementation with origins as far back as 1966.
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