Ok, you caught us. It certainly isn’t going to be the year of Algol. When you think of “old” programming languages, you usually think of FORTRAN and COBOL. You should also think of LISP. But only a ...
Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Prologue -- "ALGOL genes" -- Abstractions all the way -- In the name of architecture -- Getting to know parallelism -- Very formal affairs -- A symbolic ...
Papers collected by Robert W. Bemer (1920-2004) during his involvement in setting language and data standards during the early years of the computer industry. Correspondence, reports, publications, ...