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Thomas J. Bergin
and Richard G. Gibson, ed., History
of Programming Languages - II, New York: ACM Press, Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996. ISBN: 0201895021.
This is a collection of papers presented to the Second ACM SIGPLAN History
of Computing Conference (HOPL-II). The range of languages and the quality
of presentation makes this volume a classic in the history of programming
literature.
This book serves as a reference for an overall view of higher level languages. It brings together in one place fundamental information on programming languages, including history, general characteristics, similarities, and difference. It also provides history and perspective for higher level languages.
In 1978, the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages sponsored a Conference on the History of Programming Languages (HOLP). The Program Committee selected thirteen languages that met the criteria of having been in use for at least ten years and had significant influence. The results of the conference are recorded in this book.
The author is concerned with the entire process of solving problems on computers. He discusses the discovery of algorithms and the way a language is designed for the communication of algorithms to computers.
A collection of interviews that probe the minds of nineteen of the then most notable programmers. Prefaced by a short biography and including program doodles and samples of source code, each interview examines the forces, the events, and the personality traits that have influenced the programmers' work.
Introduces the history of programming languages and systems, four major algorithmic languages, translators and compilers for languages, and some list processing and symbol manipulation languages.