People, Languages, and Computers: A Short Memoir

Smillie, K. W.

doi:10.1109/mahc.2004.1318537

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“…I remember a lecture given by a colleague, Peter Sefton, in the late 1950s on a new language called Fortran, which he said he thought might relieve some of the tedium of programming in machine language (Smillie, 2004). The development of FORTRAN began in 1954 and culminated in the first release in 1957.…”

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Language History — A Tale of Two Countries

Davey

Parker

2006

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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This paper looks at the relationships between industry computer languages and those taught in universities. By considering the differences between two of the first countries to embrace programmable computers (USA and Australia) we find patterns that seem culturally independent. History shows a set of recurring problems for academics in choosing languages. This study shows that academics should be informed by history when making those decisions.

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