Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals
| Author | Jean E. Sammet |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Computer programming languages |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall |
Publication date | 1969 |
| Publication place | United States |
| OCLC | 847766251 |
Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals is a book about programming languages written by Jean E. Sammet. Published in 1969, the book gives an overview of the state of the art of programming in the late 1960s, and records the history of programming languages up to that time.[1]
The book was considered a standard work on programming languages by professionals in the field.[2] According to Dag Spicer, senior curator of the Computer History Museum, Programming Languages "was, and remains, a classic."[3]
Contents
Programming Languages provides a history and description of 120 programming languages, with an extensive bibliography of reference works about each language and sample programs for many of them.[4] The book outlines both the technical definition and usage of each language, as well as the historical, political, and economic context of each language.[5]
Because Sammet was deeply involved in the history of programming language creation in the United States, she was able to give an insiders perspective.[2] The author excluded most programming languages used only outside the US, and excluded those she considered not to be high-level programming languages, such as APL.[5]
References
- ^ Sammet, Jean E. (1985). "Brief Summary of the Early History of COBOL". Annals of the History of Computing. 7 (4). IEEE: 288–303. doi:10.1109/MAHC.1985.10044.
- ^ a b Gürer, Denise (1995). "Pioneering Women in Computer Science" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 38 (1): 45–54. doi:10.1145/204865.204875. S2CID 6626310.
- ^ Lohr, Steve (June 4, 2017). "Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89". The New York Times.
- ^ Shapiro, Harvey A.; Kriebel, Charles H. (1969). "Review of "Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals, by (Miss) Jean E. Sammet." Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1969)". SIGMIS. 1 (2): 15. doi:10.1145/1017466.1017471.
- ^ a b Abrahams, Paul (April 1970). "Reviewed Work: Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals by Jean E. Sammet". Mathematics of Computation. 24 (110): 500–501. doi:10.2307/2004521.