All,
I looking for manuals for languages from the 1950s,
the earlier the better.
Not a manual, but "The Early Development of Programming Languages" by
Donald Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo is a longish paper that provides a
nice overview, as well as lots of literature references. It is
I looking for manuals for languages from the 1950s,
the earlier the better.
[I presume you've looked through bitsavers. -John]
All,
I looking for manuals for languages from the 1950s,
the earlier the better.
There were lots of languages around (we just don't know much
about them today): http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2017/05/21/evidence-for-28-possible-compilers-in-1957/
A programming manual c. 1958 for GEORGE:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~dgreen/deuce/GEORGEProgrammingManual.pdf
It seems to me that there were a lot of machine specific
low-level languages, about at the assembly level, before the
machines were big enough to run compilers.
All,
I looking for manuals for languages from the 1950s,
the earlier the better.
There were lots of languages around (we just don't know much
about them today): >http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2017/05/21/evidence-for-28-possible-compilers-in-1957/
It was an "optimizing" assembler in that it tried to place
instructions in locations on the 650's drum to minimize the
rotational delay. -John
I looking for manuals for languages from the 1950s,
the earlier the better.
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