LISP Prehistory-Summer 1956 through Summer 1958ĥ. Remarks to Samelson's Comments in Appendix 7Ģ. Quotations from the Zurich Report Relevant to the Development of Blocks and ProceduresĪppendix 7. Backus' Syntax Notation and Its ModificationĪppendix 3. Implications for Current and Future LanguagesĪppendix 2. Paper: The European Side of the Last Phase of the Development of ALGOLĤ. Paper: The American Side of the Development of ALGOL Transcript of Questions and Answer Session Paper: The History of Fortran I, II, and IIIĢ. Transcript of Question and Answer Session Introduction of Captain Grace Murray Hopper This book is a valuable resource for graduate students, practitioners, historians, statisticians, mathematicians, programmers, as well as computer scientists and specialists. The final chapter presents the biography of Adin D. This book discusses as well the developments leading to ALGOL 60. Other chapters consider FORTRAN programming techniques needed to produce optimum object programs.
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