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The Early Development of Programming Languages (1976) [pdf]
Author : nynyny7
Score : 46 points
Date : 2021-01-10 17:54 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| Rochus wrote:
| This link seems to work better:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20180224191459/http://bitsavers....
| pmcjones wrote:
| Actually, this is the original (non-mirrored) link and it works
| fine: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/cs_techReports/STAN-
| CS-76-...
|
| bitsavers.org, maintained by Al Kossow, is a very important
| resource for computer history.
| Rochus wrote:
| Yes, works also fine for me; maybe the link of the original
| post should be corrected.
| Torwald wrote:
| I haven't read it fully yet, but I will write that TPK algorithm
| in some language(s). Post here if you have some (! OR ?)
| shadowofneptune wrote:
| This appears to be what it would be in C or C++.
| float f(float t) { return sqrt(abs(t)) + 5
| * pow(t, 3); } void tpk(void) {
| int i; float y, a[11]; for (int i =
| 0; i < 11; ++i) scanf("%f", &a[i]);
| for (int i = 11; i > 0; --i) { y =
| f(a[i]); if (y > 400)
| printf("%d TOO LARGE", i); else
| printf("%d %f", i, y); } }
| svat wrote:
| https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Trabb_Pardo%E2%80%93Knuth_algor...
| hardwaregeek wrote:
| One of the highlights of reading The Art of Computer Programming
| (TAOCP) is the small historical lessons sprinkled in the text.
| Truth be told they're usually the main thing I understand.
| Sometimes I wish Knuth would just write a history book on
| computing. He has such a unique perspective as both a leader of
| the field and a great historian of it. Of course at this point he
| probably shouldn't have any distractions from TAOCP.
| svat wrote:
| This is a paper by Donald Knuth and his student Luis Trabb Pardo,
| and the published version has a more readable reprint:
| https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-491650-0.50019-8 (without
| paywall: http://sci-
| hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-491650-0...). See also
| someone's blog post:
| https://gregorias.github.io/2014/11/22/early-high-level-prog...
|
| There's also a video version of this paper:
| https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10262213...
| -- This is a nice talk (~80 minutes followed by ~30 minutes of
| Q&A) that Donald Knuth gave on 2003-December-03 at the Computer
| History Museum. This paper was reprinted with corrections/updates
| as pages 1 to 93 of "Selected Papers on Computer Languages" (the
| fifth volume of Knuth's collected papers), and the talk was given
| shortly after this book came out, so he spoke about the first
| chapter of the book.
|
| The clever idea here is to illustrate (very) early programming
| languages from their first decade (roughly 1947 to 1957), by
| writing the same program ("TPK") in each of them. A while ago I
| added a little bit about it to the lede of
| https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TPK_algorithm&old...
|
| What it reveals is that many ideas of programming languages that
| we now consider obvious in fact took a long time and many people
| to be developed. The early programming languages did not look at
| all like languages have looked, more or less, since 1958 (when
| both ALGOL and LISP were introduced).
|
| > _This talk will discuss contributions of Zuse (1945), Goldstine
| and von Neumann (1946), Curry (1948), Mauchly et al (1949), Burks
| (1950), Wheeler (1951), Rutishauser (1951), Bohm (1951), Glennie
| (1952), Hopper et al (1953), Laning and Zierler (1953), Brooker
| (1954), Kaminynin and Ljubimskiy (1954), Ershov (1955), Grems and
| Porter (1955), Elsworth et al (1955), Blum (1956), Perlis et al
| (1956), Katz et al (1956), Bauer and Samelson (1956), Melahn et
| al (1956), as well as the prototype of FORTRAN developed by
| Backus et al from 1954 to 1957. At least a dozen of these efforts
| will be illustrated by showing how a particular procedure called
| the TPK algorithm might have been coded at the time._
| macintux wrote:
| For anyone who may need more incentive to download the PDF: Knuth
| is co-author.
| codetrotter wrote:
| Speaking of names, in the abstract of the paper they mention:
|
| > Curry ("Composition", 1948)
|
| And suddenly I was like wow I wonder if the concept of currying
| was invented by this guy so I look it up. Turns out that while
| someone else is credited for inventing currying, it's named
| after this Curry guy indeed. And more things are named after
| him, including the Haskell programming language.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
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