Re: References to "History of Compilers"

neitzel@gaertner.de (Martin Neitzel)
24 Aug 1996 21:29:35 -0400

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From: neitzel@gaertner.de (Martin Neitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Aug 1996 21:29:35 -0400
Organization: Gaertner Datensysteme, Braunschweig, Germany
References: 96-08-056 96-08-065
Keywords: history, bibliography

>Richard Wexelblat: History of Programming Languages. Has a discussion with
>John Backus re Fortran ...


I remember this article as particularly interesting in terms of
the commercial potential of the then new "compiler concept".


Another article I would use for such a lecture is the one on the
AUTOCODER system by the late Grace Hopper, in the same book.


Martin Neitzel
[I thought Autocoder was the assembler for the 1401. -John]


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