… concern expressed by our task group that no meeting on data … ), we met every other week
for a full week during most of that … issue on language design faced at the June 1959 meeting …

… But I believe that most of us viewed our work as a stopgap measure-a very important …
Sammet, August 17, 1959 At the first meeting of the Statement Language Task Group, we posed a …

… the July 22 meeting, there was considerable concern expressed by our task group that no …
Sammet August 17, 1959 An attempt has been made to list the most controversial points in the …

… the July 22 meeting, there was considerable concern expressed by our task group that no …
Sammet August 17, 1959 An attempt has been made to list the most controversial points in the …

… of the technical results are best understood in the light of the … which met August 18-21
and August 24-25, 1959 for the … has caused the most controversy in evaluating compatibility. …

… "programming language" has been unclear and controversial … The years 1958 and 1959
were among the most prolific for … (which turned out to be ANS Basic FORTRAN) defined in [18]. …

… However, starting around 1959, the tide began to turn and … which causes as much controversy
and confusion as the … specifically under this section, because of its great importance, …

… the attendance at the May 1959 meetings; Jean Sammet, who … prepared a report entitled
“Points of Greatest Controversy,” … in the process of language development to that point. The first …

… 1959 at the UNESCO meeting, and again, I'll have a little bit … by the Statement Language
Task Group at its earliest meeting… conditional statement, as I say, I think it is the most powerful of …

… been such a controversial programming language as Algol. In … user groups, most notably
IBM and its associated user group … that in early 1959, Fortran was still a language for the IBM …