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Programming Languages : History and Fundamentals (Hardcover)

by Jean E. Sammet (Author)

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Hardcover: 785 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall (1969)
ASIN: B000OIVLUQ

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4.0 out of 5 stars A useful reference work for those interested in the history of software, September 18, 2006

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This review is from: Programming Languages (Automatic Computation) (Hardcover)

The book covers about 120 programming languages with examples from about 30 of them. There are over 800 bibliographic entries, covering history and development, and an extensive author cross-reference. -- information from dust jacket flaps.

Sections: General introduction -- Functional characteristics of programming languages -- Technical characteristics of programming languages -- Languages for numerical scientific problems -- Languages for business data processing problems -- String and list processing languages -- Formal algebraic manipulation languages -- Multipurpose languages -- Specialized languages -- Significant unimplemented concepts -- Future long-range developments.

In 1969, Jean Sammet was a programming language technology manager for the Federal Systems Division of IBM Corporation. She was active in helping start the Annals of the History of Computing in the late 1970s and among the first group of ACM Fellows elected in 1994. For someone looking at the early history of computer software across a distance of over 40 years, this is a Rosetta stone.

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Programming languages: history and fundamentals (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation)

This is a: set of duplicate Amazon catalog entries for different printings of a single edition of one text -- 4 in hard cover, 1 paperbound.

The author Wikipedia: Jean E. Sammet Contents I General introduction Machine language programming Symbolic assembly language programming Early development of better tools Definition of programming languages Advantages and disadvantages ...

Author: Jean E. Sammet; Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc.; Publication Date: 1969; ...

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