[HN Gopher] Early History of Programming Languages with Donald K...
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       Early History of Programming Languages with Donald Knuth [video]
        
       Author : janvdberg
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2022-06-11 18:45 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
        
       | svat wrote:
       | Wow, this is a talk from June 1976. After this talk he published
       | it as "The early development of programming languages" with Luis
       | Trabb Pardo as a Stanford report in August 1976 (available online
       | e.g. https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA032123), then "for real"
       | as a contribution to a 1977 encyclopedia, and the definitive
       | version collected as Chapter 1 of his "Selected Papers on
       | Computer Languages". When _that_ collection came out in 2003, he
       | gave a talk at the Computer History Museum, under the title  "A
       | Dozen Precursors of Fortran", available here:
       | https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10262213...
       | as a .wmv file; I've also reuploaded to YouTube:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGt86UHRAXY
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       | Talk description:
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       | > _The history of a subject helps us not only to understand how
       | the important ideas were born but also to appreciate the amount
       | of progress that has been made. The history of programming
       | languages is a striking example, because basic concepts that we
       | now regard as self-evident were by no means obvious a priori;
       | many years of hard work by brilliant and dedicated people were
       | necessary before these basic principles were learned._
       | 
       | > _This talk will discuss contributions of Zuse (1945), Goldstine
       | and von Neumann (1946), Curry (1948), Mauchly et al (1949), Burks
       | (1950), Wheeler (1951), Rutishauser (1951), Bohm (1951), Glennie
       | (1952), Hopper et al (1953), Laning and Zierler (1953), Brooker
       | (1954), Kaminynin and Ljubimskiy (1954), Ershov (1955), Grems and
       | Porter (1955), Elsworth et al (1955), Blum (1956), Perlis et al
       | (1956), Katz et al (1956), Bauer and Samelson (1956), Melahn et
       | al (1956), as well as the prototype of FORTRAN developed by
       | Backus et al from 1954 to 1957. At least a dozen of these efforts
       | will be illustrated by showing how a particular procedure called
       | the TPK algorithm might have been coded at the time._
       | 
       | It may be interesting to watch this 1976 talk and the 2003 talk,
       | and see if anything has changed in the history. :-)
        
       | janvdberg wrote:
       | Computer History Museum uploaded a bunch of interesting new
       | videos from the The First International Research Conference on
       | the History of Computing.
        
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